Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
Trope has been disambiguated.
Changed line(s) 866 (click to see context) from:
* {{Socialite}}: She acts as a ProperLady during 1864 to blend into high society. She even has the PimpedOutDress with the proper [[OfCorsetsSexy corsets]], OperaGloves, and hat. After she's freed from the tomb, she attempts to reintroduce herself to 21st-century society in Mystic Falls and recover her previous property, adopting a more modern look by becoming a SharpDressedWoman.
to:
* {{Socialite}}: She acts as a ProperLady during 1864 to blend into high society. She even has the PimpedOutDress with the proper [[OfCorsetsSexy corsets]], OperaGloves, opera gloves, and hat. After she's freed from the tomb, she attempts to reintroduce herself to 21st-century society in Mystic Falls and recover her previous property, adopting a more modern look by becoming a SharpDressedWoman.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
Black Sheep cleanup, removing misuse and ZCE
Deleted line(s) 188 (click to see context) :
%%* BlackSheep
Deleted line(s) 377 (click to see context) :
%%* BlackSheep
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
trope is about colorism IU
Deleted line(s) 123 (click to see context) :
* ButNotTooBlack: Justified. Her father was white while her mother was black.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
Overprotective Dad is no longer a trope.
Deleted line(s) 73 (click to see context) :
%%* OverprotectiveDad: Especially over Stefan.
* BoyfriendBlockingDad: The moment he arrives in town and becomes mayor, he attempts to keep Bonnie away from her vampire friends and stop her from using magic even to help them. Though justified by the fact that he didn't want her to get killed by vampires and he was afraid that her using magic would make her end up like her mother who lost her powers and eventually ended up getting turned into a vampire and abandoned her family before that because of her witch duties.
Deleted line(s) 548 (click to see context) :
* OverprotectiveDad: The moment he arrives in town and becomes mayor, he attempts to keep Bonnie away from her vampire friends and stop her from using magic even to help them. Though justified by the fact that he didn't want her to get killed by vampires and he was afraid that her using magic would make her end up like her mother who lost her powers and eventually ended up getting turned into a vampire and abandoned her family before that because of her witch duties.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
Jerk With A Heart Of Gold, as revealed on Super Trope, is a Sub Trope to Jerkass. Additionally, Widow Woman is no longer a trope.
Changed line(s) 197,198 (click to see context) from:
%%* {{Jerkass}}: Graduated to..
%%** JerkWithAHeartOfGold
%%** JerkWithAHeartOfGold
to:
%%* {{Jerkass}}: Graduated to..
%%**JerkWithAHeartOfGold
%%**
Deleted line(s) 874 (click to see context) :
* WidowWoman: She lost her husband and three of her children to disease, with only herself and Anna surviving due to being turned by Katherine.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
Changed line(s) 625 (click to see context) from:
* AbortedArc: The writers originally planned for her to be a [[HornyDevils succubus]] back in season one, but the plot was cut for being too dark and she got written out.
to:
* AbortedArc: The writers originally planned for her to be a [[HornyDevils [[SuccubiAndIncubi succubus]] back in season one, but the plot was cut for being too dark and she got written out.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 7 (click to see context) from:
[[WMG:[[center:[-''Series/TheVampireDiariesUniverse'' '''[[Characters/TheVampireDiariesUniverse Main Character Index]]'''\\
to:
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
Deleted line(s) 802 (click to see context) :
%% * {{Nerd}}: She is highly intelligent and is quite a bit of a bookworm.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
Nice Hat is now a disambiguation page.
Deleted line(s) 805 (click to see context) :
%% * NiceHat: Wore one during the 1864 flashbacks.
Changed line(s) 873 (click to see context) from:
* {{Socialite}}: She acts as a ProperLady during 1864 to blend into high society. She even has the PimpedOutDress with the proper [[OfCorsetsSexy corsets]], OperaGloves, and NiceHat. After she's freed from the tomb, she attempts to reintroduce herself to 21st-century society in Mystic Falls and recover her previous property, adopting a more modern look by becoming a SharpDressedWoman.
to:
* {{Socialite}}: She acts as a ProperLady during 1864 to blend into high society. She even has the PimpedOutDress with the proper [[OfCorsetsSexy corsets]], OperaGloves, and NiceHat.hat. After she's freed from the tomb, she attempts to reintroduce herself to 21st-century society in Mystic Falls and recover her previous property, adopting a more modern look by becoming a SharpDressedWoman.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
fixing image on wrong character
Changed line(s) 540 (click to see context) from:
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/emily_bennett.jpg]]
to:
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/emily_bennett.org/pmwiki/pub/images/rudy_hopkins.jpg]]
Changed line(s) 555 (click to see context) from:
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/AbbyBennett_4504.jpg]]
to:
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/AbbyBennett_4504.jpg]]org/pmwiki/pub/images/emily_bennett.jpg]]
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 11 (click to see context) from:
[[Characters/TheVampireDiariesUniverseMysticFallsGang The Mystic Falls Gang]] ([[Characters/TheVampireDiariesUniverseElenaGilbert Elena Gilbert]] | [[Characters/TheVampireDiariesUniverseStefanSalvatore Stefan Salvatore]]) | '''Mystic Falls Citizens''' | [[Characters/TheVampireDiariesUniverseStefansAndDamonsFriends Stefan's and Damon's Friends]] | [[Characters/TheVampireDiariesUniversePetrovaFamily The Petrova Family]] ([[Characters/TheVampireDiariesUniverseKatherinePierce Katherine Pierce]]) | [[Characters/TheVampireDiariesUniverseTheOriginalsAndAssociates The Originals & Associates]] | [[Characters/TheVampireDiariesUniverseWerewolfPacks Werewolf Packs]] |[[Characters/TheVampireDiariesUniverseBrotherhoodOfTheFive The Brotherhood of The Five]] |[[Characters/TheVampireDiariesUniverseTheTravelers The Travelers]] ([[Characters/TheVampireDiariesUniverseSilas Silas]] | [[Characters/TheVampireDiariesUniverseQetsiyah Qetsiyah]]) | [[Characters/TheVampireDiariesUniverseWhitmoreCollege Whitmore College]] | [[Characters/TheVampireDiariesUniverseGeminiCoven Gemini Coven]] | [[Characters/TheVampireDiariesUniverseTheHeretics The Heretics]] | [[Characters/TheVampireDiariesUniverseTheSirens The Sirens]]\\
to:
[[Characters/TheVampireDiariesUniverseMysticFallsGang The Mystic Falls Gang]] ([[Characters/TheVampireDiariesUniverseElenaGilbert Elena Gilbert]] | [[Characters/TheVampireDiariesUniverseStefanSalvatore Stefan Salvatore]]) | '''Mystic Falls Citizens''' | [[Characters/TheVampireDiariesUniverseStefansAndDamonsFriends Stefan's and Damon's Friends]] | [[Characters/TheVampireDiariesUniversePetrovaFamily The Petrova Family]] ([[Characters/TheVampireDiariesUniverseKatherinePierce Katherine Pierce]]) | [[Characters/TheVampireDiariesUniverseTheOriginalsAndAssociates The Originals & Associates]] | [[Characters/TheVampireDiariesUniverseWerewolfPacks Werewolf Packs]] |[[Characters/TheVampireDiariesUniverseBrotherhoodOfTheFive | [[Characters/TheVampireDiariesUniverseBrotherhoodOfTheFive The Brotherhood of The Five]] |[[Characters/TheVampireDiariesUniverseTheTravelers | [[Characters/TheVampireDiariesUniverseTheTravelers The Travelers]] ([[Characters/TheVampireDiariesUniverseSilas Silas]] | [[Characters/TheVampireDiariesUniverseQetsiyah Qetsiyah]]) | [[Characters/TheVampireDiariesUniverseWhitmoreCollege Whitmore College]] | [[Characters/TheVampireDiariesUniverseGeminiCoven Gemini Coven]] | [[Characters/TheVampireDiariesUniverseTheHeretics The Heretics]] | [[Characters/TheVampireDiariesUniverseTheSirens The Sirens]]\\
Changed line(s) 13 (click to see context) from:
[[Characters/TheVampireDiariesUniverseMikaelsons The Mikaelsons]] | ([[Characters/TheVampireDiariesUniverseKlausMikaelson Klaus Mikaelson]]) | [[Characters/TheVampireDiariesUniverseMikaelsonAssociates Mikaelson Associates]] | [[Characters/TheVampireDiariesUniverseOtherHumans Other Humans]] | [[Characters/TheVampireDiariesUniverseOtherVampires Other Vampires]] | [[Characters/TheVampireDiariesUniverseOtherWitches Other Witches]] | [[Characters/TheVampireDiariesUniverseOtherWerewolves Other Werewolves]]\\
to:
[[Characters/TheVampireDiariesUniverseMikaelsons The Mikaelsons]] | ([[Characters/TheVampireDiariesUniverseKlausMikaelson Klaus Mikaelson]]) | [[Characters/TheVampireDiariesUniverseMikaelsonAssociates Mikaelson Associates]] | [[Characters/TheVampireDiariesUniverseOtherHumans Other Humans]] | [[Characters/TheVampireDiariesUniverseOtherVampires Other Vampires]] | [[Characters/TheVampireDiariesUniverseOtherWitches Other Witches]] | [[Characters/TheVampireDiariesUniverseOtherWerewolves Other Werewolves]]\\
Added DiffLines:
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Added DiffLines:
%%
%%
%% Administrivia/ZeroContextExample entries are not allowed on wiki pages. All such entries have been commented out. Add context to the entries before uncommenting them.
%%
%%
[[WMG:[[center:[-''Series/TheVampireDiariesUniverse'' '''[[Characters/TheVampireDiariesUniverse Main Character Index]]'''\\
'''[[Literature/TheVampireDiaries The Vampire Diaries Novels]]'''\\
[[Characters/TheVampireDiariesBookCharacters The Vampire Diaries Book Characters]]\\
'''Series/TheVampireDiaries'''\\
[[Characters/TheVampireDiariesUniverseMysticFallsGang The Mystic Falls Gang]] ([[Characters/TheVampireDiariesUniverseElenaGilbert Elena Gilbert]] | [[Characters/TheVampireDiariesUniverseStefanSalvatore Stefan Salvatore]]) | '''Mystic Falls Citizens''' | [[Characters/TheVampireDiariesUniverseStefansAndDamonsFriends Stefan's and Damon's Friends]] | [[Characters/TheVampireDiariesUniversePetrovaFamily The Petrova Family]] ([[Characters/TheVampireDiariesUniverseKatherinePierce Katherine Pierce]]) | [[Characters/TheVampireDiariesUniverseTheOriginalsAndAssociates The Originals & Associates]] | [[Characters/TheVampireDiariesUniverseWerewolfPacks Werewolf Packs]] |[[Characters/TheVampireDiariesUniverseBrotherhoodOfTheFive The Brotherhood of The Five]] |[[Characters/TheVampireDiariesUniverseTheTravelers The Travelers]] ([[Characters/TheVampireDiariesUniverseSilas Silas]] | [[Characters/TheVampireDiariesUniverseQetsiyah Qetsiyah]]) | [[Characters/TheVampireDiariesUniverseWhitmoreCollege Whitmore College]] | [[Characters/TheVampireDiariesUniverseGeminiCoven Gemini Coven]] | [[Characters/TheVampireDiariesUniverseTheHeretics The Heretics]] | [[Characters/TheVampireDiariesUniverseTheSirens The Sirens]]\\
'''Series/TheOriginals'''\\
[[Characters/TheVampireDiariesUniverseMikaelsons The Mikaelsons]] | ([[Characters/TheVampireDiariesUniverseKlausMikaelson Klaus Mikaelson]]) | [[Characters/TheVampireDiariesUniverseMikaelsonAssociates Mikaelson Associates]] | [[Characters/TheVampireDiariesUniverseOtherHumans Other Humans]] | [[Characters/TheVampireDiariesUniverseOtherVampires Other Vampires]] | [[Characters/TheVampireDiariesUniverseOtherWitches Other Witches]] | [[Characters/TheVampireDiariesUniverseOtherWerewolves Other Werewolves]]\\
'''Series/{{Legacies}}'''\\
''[[Characters/TheVampireDiariesUniverseTheSuperSquad The Super Squad]]'' | ''[[Characters/TheVampireDiariesUniverseSalvatoreSchoolForTheYoungAndGifted The Salvatore Boarding School for the Young and Gifted]]'' | ''[[Characters/TheVampireDiariesUniverseGodsAndDemigods Gods and Demigods]]''-]]]]]
[[foldercontrol]]
!Founding Families
!!Salvatore Family
[[folder: Stefan Salvatore]]
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/s4_003.jpg]]
->'''Portrayed by:''' Creator/PaulWesley
->''"I don't hurt people. I don't do that. I'm the good brother."''
\\
Stefan is a mysterious, handsome century-old immortal. He is a protagonist, and narrator of the series. Stefan is known to be the good vampire brother (between he and Damon) and is seen to be kind, caring, compassionate, heroic and selfless. Stefan tries to avoid drinking human blood due to the fact that he hates hurting or killing anyone (drinking human blood turns him into an insane, amoral "ripper", choosing to feed from the blood of animals instead. Stefan is weaker than most other vampires, in particular his elder brother Damon who has held a grudge against Stefan for over a century. Early in the series, Stefan fatefully meets and falls in love with Elena Gilbert. He develops a mutual romantic relationship with her while protecting her and her loved ones both from his own nature and other vampires. In the season two finale Stefan reverts back to his darker side, the Ripper, in order to save Damon from dying from a fatal werewolf bite. In exchange for the cure (which is Klaus' hybrid blood), he becomes a servant to TheBigBad, Klaus. Since season three onwards, Stefan has turned on his humanity and reverts back to his normal, humane self.
----
--> See Characters/TheVampireDiariesUniverseStefanSalvatore.
[[/folder]]
[[folder: Damon Salvatore]]
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/damon_salvatore.jpg]]
->'''Portrayed by:''' Creator/IanSomerhalder
->''"It's cool not growing old. I like being the eternal stud."''
\\
Damon is Stefan's malevolent, dangerous and impulsive older brother. He is the anti-hero and the antagonist (especially in season one) of the series. He is most certainly ''not'' a Friendly Neighbourhood Vampire. He long ago swore to make Stefan's life "an eternity of misery". At first, he kills a lot of people in Mystic Falls, but later moderates his behaviour for a number of reasons but he remains dangerous. When he wants to, Damon can be charming and hilarious... but also cruel and capricious, and capable of killing on a whim. For the first season, Damon is the series' Antagonist, but has reverted his status to help Stefan and protect Elena.
----
--> See Characters/TheVampireDiariesUniverseMysticFallsGang.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Giuseppe Salvatore]]
!!Giuseppe Salvatore
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Giuseppe_Salvatore_805.jpg]]
->'''Portrayed by''': Creator/JamesRemar
->''"These creatures are of the darkest parts of hell...they must be destroyed!"''
----
* AbusiveParent: He would physically abuse his children as a method of disciplinary action.
%%* ActionDad: Involved amidst all of the vampire action.
%%* AggressiveCategorism: Giuseppe has an IrrationalHatred towards all vampire and sees them all as abominations.
* TheAlcoholic: Stefan mentions how after his mother died, Giuseppe became a heavy drinker.
* BloodKnight: Giuseppe is always eager to kill and eradicate as many vampires as possible.
%%* TheChessmaster: Giuseppe is very manipulative.
%%* ControlFreak: Giuseppe was very controlling and authoritarian by nature.
%%* DirtyCoward
* DrowningMySorrows: After Giuseppe's wife died, he used alcohol as a coping mechanism for his grief.
%%* FantasticRacism: Giuseppe has a hatred against vampires.
%%* TheFundamentalist: A non-religious example. Giuseppe strongly believed that all vampires are evil and incapable of any good.
%% * GentlemanAndAScholar
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Giuseppe tries to stake Stefan as a vampire, but instead, Giuseppe ends up fatally wounded after he was staked by the same stake that he was going to use to kill his own son.
%%* IrrationalHatred: Towards all vampires.
%% * {{Jerkass}}: BIG TIME.
* KarmicDeath: Giuseppe ends up being killed by his own son Stefan, who happens to be a vampire, the one thing that he hunts and despises.
* KilledOffForReal: After rejecting Stefan for siding with the vampires, he tried to stake him with a wooden stake that he broke off himself, but he was thrown aside with the impact of Stefan's unexpected vampire strength and accidentally stabbed himself with the stake.
%%* KnightTemplar: Killed his own sons for trying to help a vampire escape.
%%* ManipulativeBastard: Extremely cunning and manipulative.
%%* OverprotectiveDad: Especially over Stefan.
%%* PapaWolf: Very protective of his sons, especially Stefan.
* ParentalFavoritism: For Stefan, whom he admired for being studious and responsible while he believed his eldest son Damon was irresponsible and lacked any sense of direction.
%%* ThePatriarch: Of the Salvatore family.
%%* PosthumousCharacter
* {{Protectorate}}: As a member of one of the Founding Families of Mystic Falls, Giuseppe had a duty to protect the town of Mystic Falls from vampires.
%%* SharpDressedMan: Always well dressed and well put together.
* TheStoic: Doesn't show emotion and is very stern.
* VampireHunter: Hunts vampires and sees them as an abomination.
%%* WellIntentionedExtremist: See KnightTemplar.
[[/folder]]
[[folder: Zach Salvatore]]
!!Zach Salvatore
[[quoteright:170:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Zach_3771.jpg]]
->'''Portrayed by''': Creator/ChrisWilliamMartin
->''"Blood only runs so deep when you're related to vampires."''
----
* ForgottenFallenFriend: He gets killed by Damon early in season 1, but nobody really seems to care or notice that he's gone and Damon is EasilyForgiven for killing him by the few people that know.
%%* KilledOffForReal: By Damon.
* NeckSnap: Damon kills him by snapping his neck for revenge after Zach helped Stefan lock him up.
%%* OnlySaneMan
* TooDumbToLive: Despite Stefan telling him how dangerous it is to see Damon, he still sees to it to go and taunt him, which gets him killed.
* UnfazedEveryman: He was a human distant nephew who lived with Stefan and Damon initially and took a lot of their antics, and other supernatural elements in stride.
* WeHardlyKnewYe: Dies after five episodes in season 1.
[[/folder]]
[[folder: Lily Salvatore]]
!!Lillian 'Lily' Salvatore
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/tvd7_lily_salvatore.jpg]]
->'''Portrayed by''': Creator/AnnieWersching
->''"You have no idea what devastation feels like. But you will. Because I am going to find a way to get my people back. No matter what it takes."''
Stefan and Damon's mother. Lily died of consumption in 1858. In Season Six, it is revealed Lily actually became a vampire. She eventually became a Ripper vampire like Stefan was. Lily was imprisoned in a Prison World by the Gemini Coven of witches on October 31, 1903.
----
--> See Characters/TheVampireDiariesUniverseTheHeretics.
[[/folder]]
[[folder: Sara Nelson]]
!!Sara Nelson (born Sara Salvatore)
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/74a76c4eb5e057e8f636ac99ee94b87f.jpg]]
->'''Portrayed by''': Creator/TristinMays
->''"This is why I don't go to the Animal Shelter"''
Daughter of Zach Salvatore, Sara is the only living member of the Salvatore bloodline.
----
* BackForTheDead: Returns in season 8 and gets killed by Sybil in the one episode she appears in.
* CharacterDeath: Stabbed by Sybil and dies in front of Stefan in season 8.
* ButNotTooBlack: Justified. Her father was white while her mother was black.
* MoralityPet: To Enzo and Stefan, who try to keep her safe and let down some of their emotions around her.
* NiceGirl: Lampshaded by Enzo. She's friendly and trusting despite her DarkAndTroubledPast
%%* LongLostRelative: Inverted. Stefan knows about her, she just doesn't know about him.
* HappilyAdopted: She is content with her adoptive family and has no interest in re-seeking her roots.
* OrphansOrdeal: Her mother was killed by Damon when she was pregnant (with Sara barely being saved), and her father hypnotized into forgetting she ever existed.
%%* ShipTease: With Matt.
%%* SassyBlackWoman:
* TwoferTokenMinority: Of her own family. She's the only woman and she's biracial.
* WhenSheSmiles: Obviously there's a lot to leave her concerned or upset in the world of the series but when she smiles she looks very bright and cute.
[[/folder]]
!!Gilbert Family
[[folder: Elena Gilbert]]
!!!Elena Gilbert
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/elena_gilbert.jpg]]
->'''Portrayed by:''' Creator/NinaDobrev
->''"I don't question why everyone tries so hard to save me. You shouldn't question why I try so hard to save everyone else."''
----
--> See Characters/TheVampireDiariesUniverseElenaGilbert.
[[/folder]]
[[folder: Jeremy Gilbert]]
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/s4_007.jpg]]
->'''Portrayed by:''' Creator/StevenRMcQueen
->''"Why does everyone keep dying on me?''"
\\
Elena's little brother took their parents' death poorly, falling into self-destruction and drug abuse. He also fell in love with the troubled and older GirlNextDoor, Vicki Donovan. He's far from stupid, and Elena's desperate attempts to protect him from the vampires only make him suspicious and he starts to distrust her.
----
--> See Characters/TheVampireDiariesUniverseMysticFallsGang.
[[/folder]]
[[folder: Jenna Sommers]]
!!Jenna Sommers
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/jenna_gilbert.jpg]]
->'''Portrayed by:''' Creator/SaraCanning
->''"I've become my worst nightmare. The authority figure."''
\\
In a better world, Jenna could have been an awesome cool aunt to Elena and Jeremy. With the tragic death of her sister and brother-in-law, however, she has to step up into the role of guardian for the two of them but she's not really suited for it. Still, she tries... and at least she gets a nice love interest in the form of Alaric, following the second mysterious disappearance of Logan "Scum" Fell. She is turned into a vampire and then sacrificed by Klaus.
----
* AdultsAreUseless: Despite being the adult figure in Elena and Jeremy's life, she doesn't seem to have much luck in parenting them, and obviously can help them even less when supernatural things start happening.
* AdaptationNameChange: In the books, Elena's aunt's name is Judith Maxwell (nee Gilbert). On the show, she's Jenna Sommers.
%% * CoolBigSis: Fills this role much better than the one of "responsible parent".
%% * DeadpanSnarker: Has her moments.
* KilledOffForReal: She ends up being turned into a vampire and later gets killed by Klaus while attempting to throw a wrench into Klaus' plans.
* OlderThanTheyLook: She's Elena and Jeremy's aunt and a generation older than them, but she looks like Elena's peer.
* OutOfFocus: She's quickly demoted to a PlotDevice for [[spoiler: [[MustBeInvited inviting vampires into the Gilbert house or getting compelled by them]] until she is eventually killed off in season 2.]]
* ParentalSubstitute: After her sister and brother-in-law are killed in a car crash, she becomes Elena and Jeremy's legal guardian.
[[/folder]]
[[folder: John Gilbert]]
!!John Gilbert
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/John_Gilbert_8313.jpg]]
->'''Portrayed''': by Creator/DavidAnders
->''"You know, Jeremy, I was taught to hate them, the vampires. It’s what I know. It’s what your father knew."''
----
%%* AnnoyingYoungerSibling: To Grayson.
%%* AntiVillain: [[WellIntentionedExtremist Type III]].
%%* BigBad: Of season one.
%%* BlackSheep
%%* TheChessmaster
%%* CoolUncle: To Jeremy. He's also Elena's biological father. Though Jeremy stops thinking of him like this when he kills his girlfriend.
%%* DeadpanSnarker
%%* DragonInChief: See BigBadDuumvirate.
%%* HeWhoFightsMonsters: Isobel and John are working for Katherine and they are planning to kill the tomb's vampires. Unofficially, their goal is to kill the Salvatore brothers and save Elena from suffering in a life filled with vampires.
* HeroicSacrifice: After Klaus killed Elena, John sacrificed himself to bring her back to life as a human.
%%* {{Jerkass}}: Graduated to..
%%** JerkWithAHeartOfGold
%%* KilledOffForReal: While making a HeroicSacrifice to save Elena from becoming a vampire.
%%* KnightTemplar
%%* KnightTemplarParent: To Elena.
%%* LukeIAmYourFather: He's Elena's birth father.
%%* ThePatriarch
%%* RedemptionEqualsDeath: He sacrificed himself to save Elena.
* SenselessSacrifice: Sacrificing his life to resurrect Elena without her having to turn into a vampire ends up being for nothing when she dies with vampire blood in her system in the season 3 finale, and she completes the transition in the season 4 premier, becoming a vampire.
%%* SmugSnake
%%* VampireHunter
%%* WellIntentionedExtremist: See HeWhoFightsMonsters.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Grayson & Miranda Gilbert]]
!!Grayson Gilbert & Miranda Sommers Gilbert
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/miranda_and_grayson.jpg]]
->'''Portrayed''': by Creator/JasonMacdonald and Creator/ErinBeute
Grayson and Miranda were Elena and Jeremy's mom and dad. Grayson was also John Gilbert's older brother and the town doctor of Mystic Falls.
Grayson and Miranda were both members of the Town Council and thus knew about vampires.
Grayson and Miranda were both killed in a car accident going off Wickery Bridge before the start of the series. It's later revealed that Grayson and Miranda were actually Elena's biological uncle and aunt making Jeremy her cousin.
----
* BirdsOfAFeather: Miranda was this with Kelly Donovan and Liz Forbes when she was alive.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: In season 5, Grayson is revealed to have been apart of the Augustine Society and participated in the torture and experimentation on vampires.
* HeroicSacrifice: Grayson gestures to Stefan to rescue Elena instead of himself when they are drowning underwater when the car crashed resulting in his death as Stefan only had enough time to save one of them.
* {{Posthumous Character}}s: Before the beginning of the series, Grayson and Miranda drowned after their car fell off of Wickery Bridge and into the lake.
* {{Secret Keeper}}s: As members of the council they knew of the existence of vampires and the supernatural and kept the information secret from their children and the town.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Johnathan Gilbert]]
!!Johnathan Gilbert
[[quoteright:270:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ce6ce302972d339d0bb4d931169d5e1c.png]]
->'''Portrayed''': by Creator/JoeKnezevich
Elena and Jeremy's ancestor who was part of the vampire round up in Mystic Falls in 1864.
----
%%* KnightTemplar: He was a member of one of the Founding Families that hunted vampires along with Giuseppe Salvatore and Barnette Lockwood.
%%* MadScientist: He invented the Gilbert device, the Gilbert rings, and the Gilbert compass. Though they were actually just spelled by Emily.
* PosthumousCharacter: Has been dead for centuries.
* SanitySlippage: Driven insane by the Gilbert ring.
[[/folder]]
[[folder: Isobel Flemming-Saltzman]]
!!Isobel Flemming-Saltzman
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/isolvel_tvd.jpg]]
->'''Portrayed by''': Creator/MiaKirshner
->''"I am selfish, and I'm obsessed, and I'm a horrible wife. But you love me anyway."''
Elena's birth mother, Katherine's descendant, and Alaric's ex-wife.
----
--> See Characters/TheVampireDiariesUniversePetrovaFamily.
[[/folder]]
!!Forbes Family
[[folder: Caroline Forbes]]
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/caroline_forbes.jpg]]
->'''Portrayed by:''' Creator/CandiceAccola & Creator/MckennaGrace
->''"So you're saying now I'm an insecure, neurotic control freak... on crack?''"
----
--> See Characters/TheVampireDiariesUniverseMysticFallsGang.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Liz Forbes]]
!!Sheriff Elizabeth 'Liz' Forbes
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Liz_Forbes_4621.jpg]]
->'''Portrayed by''': Creator/MargueriteMacIntyre
Liz was the sheriff of Mystic Falls and a member of the Founder's Council. She was the ex-wife of late fellow Founder's Council member Bill Forbes, who came out as being gay, and mother of Caroline. She initially struggled to accept Caroline's identity as a vampire given her prejudices, but in time she learned to love her daughter for who she is.
----
%%* ActionMom: She's a cop and an efficient vampire hunter.
* AccidentalMurder: She accidentally killed Jeremy when she shoots at Damon, and he dodges the bullet, hitting Jeremy. Bonnie is forced to have the witch ancestors bring him back, since Liz wasn't a supernatural creature, meaning that the Gilbert ring wouldn't bring him back.
%%* BadassNormal: She is a human with no supernatural powers.
* BigDamnHeroes: When, in Season 3, Caroline is kidnapped and tortured by her father to try and suppress her vampirism, Liz (and Tyler) burst in and save the day.
%%* {{Determinator}}
* HeelRealization: She has this when she accidentally kills Jeremy when she was trying to kill Damon, and after this she accepts Caroline for what she is.
* IncompatibleOrientation: Bill Forbes, her husband and father to Caroline, left her when he came out as a homosexual.
* KilledOffForReal: Succumbs to cancer in Season 6.
%%* KnightTemplar: She was relentless in killing vampires and when finding out Damon and Caroline are vampires, she tortures Damon to find out about the others, and later attempts to kill Caroline.
%%* KnightTemplarParent: To Caroline.
* MamaBear: Sheriff Forbes has a strained relationship with her daughter, but she cares for her well-being. When Caroline gets drunk at the Mystic Grill, she arrests the bartender for not checking the [=IDs=] properly (unaware that Lexi had used compulsion on him). She later fights against other supernatural creatures and will also cover up murders done by her vampire friends to protect her daughter.
* OddFriendship: Has this with Damon before finding out he's a vampire and, even after finding out, Damon shows that he legitimately considers her his friend by not killing her like he did with her deputies. She generally starts seeing him as a friend when she accepts her daughter as a vampire and that not all vampires are evil. They later become best friends. Damon is also distraught when she dies from cancer and gives a eulogy at her funeral.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: When she was able to accept that her daughter Caroline is a vampire, she becomes this and by also helping the Salvatore brothers and her other friends with the supernatural problems of the town.
* UnwittingPawn: When Damon manipulates her into killing Lexi by making her seem like the dangerous vampire.
%%* VampireHunter: Used to be one.
%%* VillainousBSOD: The first time she finds out Caroline is a vampire.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: She is at first this when she is hunting and killing vampires because as far as she knew they were all evil and she was protecting the town by killing them before they can kill anyone else. This attitude towards vampires results in her trying to kill her own daughter when finding out she was turned into one.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Bill Forbes]]
!!Bill Forbes
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/BillForbes_1590.jpg]]
->'''Portrayed by''': Creator/JackColeman
William "Bill" Forbes II was a Mystic Falls resident who returned to point out all the failings of the current Council’s attempts to keep vampires out of town, after discovering that his daughter, Caroline, is one of them.
----
* BadassNormal: He is a human with no supernatural powers, until he's murdered with the vampire blood still in his system. However he refuses to feed to complete the transition and dies.
%%* DeadpanSnarker
* DeathEqualsRedemption: He accepts that Caroline is a vampire and spends his final moments with her as he is dying from not completing the transition.
* FaceDeathWithDignity: When killed with vampire blood in his system and left with the choice to either become a vampire or die, he chose the latter without hesitation, and uses his remaining time to reconcile with his daughter and ex-wife, waiting calmly for his death.
* HaveIMentionedIAmGay: The only reason that we know that he is gay, is because people keep saying that he is, not because he ever kisses men or anything. Even then he only mentions his off-screen boyfriend once when Caroline asks about him.
* {{Hypocrite}}: He believes he can make Caroline change what she is, despite the fact that he is a homosexual. Weirdly enough, he also ''averts'' this trope regarding his conviction that vampirism and cheating death are wrong, as seen in the FaceDeathWithDignity entry.
* ImmuneToMindControl: The only known human character so far who can actually NoSell a vampire's compelling without relying on vervain.
* IncompatibleOrientation: He left his wife Liz when he came out as a homosexual.
* KarmicTransformation: Subverted and defied; he is killed with vampire blood in his system, but refuses to complete his transformation and lets himself die instead.
* KilledOffForReal: By Alaric (while he was taken over by The Darkness), who stabbed him to death and cut his throat while having vampire blood in his system.
%%* KnightTemplar: Remorseless in killing vampires and though he doesn't kill his daughter who became a vampire, he is willing to torture her to make her not be like other vampires.
%%* KnightTemplarParent: To Caroline.
* StraightGay: He is not stereotypical, and, as stated, the only reason you know he is gay is because the other characters talk about him being so, and that he left Liz when he came out.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: He comes back to town when he finds out that Caroline is a vampire and his intention is to teach her how to control her vampire nature, but his methods on teaching her are to torture her with sunlight and starving her to force her to resist the temptation to feed off a people. Also like other members of the founding families. he hunts and kills vampires to protect the town.
[[/folder]]
!!Lockwood Family
[[folder: Tyler Lockwood]]
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/tyler_lockwood.jpg]]
->'''Portrayed by:''' Creator/MichaelTrevino
->''"I have no one else to tell. I'm sorry about earlier. It's just, I'm alone with this. What's gonna happen to me? I'm gonna turn on the next full moon, and I won't be able to stop it. I'm scared.''"
\\
Matt's best friend, though the two couldn't be more different - Tyler seems to be nothing more than a JerkJock, and the son of the town's Mayor. But his parents are [[FreudianExcuse very unpleasant people]]... and Tyler has actually inherited more from his father than just womanizing ways and a hair-trigger temper... The Lockwood bloodline are actually potential werewolves, and following Katherine's plan in the second season Tyler becomes a full werewolf himself.
----
--> See Characters/TheVampireDiariesUniverseMysticFallsGang.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Richard Lockwood]]
!!Mayor Richard Lockwood
[[quoteright:170:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Mayor_lockwood_9433.jpg]]
->'''Portrayed by''': Creator/RobertPralgo.
----
%%* AbusiveParents: To Tyler.
%%* HairTriggerTemper: Clearly Tyler inherited this trait from his father. Though, both having the werewolf gene doesn't hurt either.
* {{Jerkass}}: He has a temper and he openly flirts with other women despite being married.
* KarmicDeath: Is trapped in a basement with vampires he helped trap. One of them [[NeckSnap breaks his neck]].
* KilledOffForReal: Killed when a vampire snaps his neck.
%%* KnightTemplarParent: To Tyler.
%%* MeaningfulName: ''Richard'' , both in the fact that the family is a wealthy and he's a dick.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Carol Lockwood]]
!!Carol Lockwood
[[quoteright:170:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Carol_Lockwood_4013.jpg]]
->''"You know, if you`re going to bring a girl home I wish she`d have the tact not to sneak out like a prostitute."''
->'''Portrayed by''': Creator/SusanWalters.
----
* ActionMom: A mother who is willing to fight the monsters of Mystic Falls, especially to protect her son.
%%* ActionSurvivor
%%* BadassNormal
%%* TheDeterminator
%%* GenreSavvy
%%* GoodParents
* KilledOffForReal: Carol is drowned by Klaus as revenge for Tyler's attempt to immobilize him.
%%* IceQueen
%%* IronLady
%%* KnightTemplar
%%* KnightTemplarParent
%%* MamaBear
%%* {{MuggleParents}}: To Tyler, who is a werewolf.
%%* ProperLady
%%* RichBitch: Especially in Season 1. She mellows out a little after Richard dies.
%%* SilkHidingSteel
%%* StepfordSmiler: In season one, while being locked in a hostile relationship with her husband, Richard.
%%* WellIntentionedExtremist: Especially during her time as the Mayor.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Mason Lockwood]]
!!Mason Lockwood
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Mason_Lockwood_7484.jpg]]
->'''Portrayed by''': Creator/TaylorKinney
->''"Oh, what am I? I apologize. I’m an animal."''
Tyler's uncle and a member of Jules' werewolf pack.
----
* AgentScully: Plays up his reputation as a skeptic, but he knows for a fact that there's more out there.
%%* AnnoyingYoungerSibling: To Richard.
* AwakeningTheSleepingGiant: When he was first confronted by Damon, he made it clear he had no intention of being the Salvatore's enemy and would rather mind his own business. Damon tried to kill him regardless, resulting in him actively trying to get the two brothers killed. Partially subverted when it's revealed he was working for Katherine anyway; his mission just didn't involve harming them.
* BackFromTheDead: In season 3 he appears as a ghost to Damon in order to hurt him, but also help him find a way to defeat Klaus, in order to help his nephew, who Klaus turned into a hybrid.
%%* BlackSheep
* BlatantLies: He's not very good at hiding the fact he's a werewolf.
-->'''Tyler:''' Your eyes, they glowed... what was that?\\
'''Mason:''' Reflection. Off car headlamps.
%%* TheCasanova: According to Jenna.
%%* ChickMagnet: According to Jenna.
* CoolUncle: To Tyler. He is sexy, athletic, and possesses an easygoing charm, making him more likable and cool than his brother and Tyler's father.
* KickTheDog: While you can't really blame him for trying to get the Salvatore killed after Damon [[AwakeningTheSleepingGiant tried to kill him]], he really had ''no'' good reason to threaten Caroline with revealing her vampiric nature to her mother.
%%* KilledOffForReal: By Damon.
* LoveMakesYouDumb: He was easily manipulated by his lover Katherine and had no idea she was just using him to find the moonstone.
%% * OurWerewolvesAreDifferent: The first werewolf character to be introduced in the show. He also serves as the example to establish how this universe's version of the werewolves work.
%%* SurferDude
%%* TallDarkAndHandsome
%%* TallDarkAndSnarky
* UnwittingPawn: Unbeknown to him, Katherine is just using him to search for the moonstone.
* WeHardlyKnewYe: He dies after a few episodes in season 2.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Jeffrey Lockwood-Hamilton]]
--> '''Played By:''' Creator/JustinPrice
----
* LivingProp: He exists solely to be Caroline's escort to a prom committee mostly containing Founding Families members in one episode.
* TangledFamilyTree: His exact relationship to Tyler, his parents and Mason is unclear.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Alaric eventually claims that Tyler was the last of the Lockwood's, making it unclear whether Jeffrey (and Gracie Lockwood, an unseen female relative mentioned in season 4) were killed offscreen at some point or simply weren't being counted for being more distant relatives and/or uninvolved in the supernatural.
[[/folder]]
!!Fell Family
[[folder:Logan Fell]]
!!Logan Fell
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Logan_Fell_3935.jpg]]
->'''Portrayed by''': Creator/ChrisJohnson
->''"I`ve things to do, people to kill."''
----
* BitchInSheepsClothing: He pretends to be nice to Jenna when he was only using her to get Johnathan Gilbert's watch for The Town Council from her house
* BullyingADragon: He riddled Damon with wooden bullets while taunting him, but left him without finishing him off. It comes back to bite him when Damon goes after him.
%% * {{Immortality}}: Type V and Type X.
* {{Jerkass}}: According to Jenna. He does attempt to act nicer while working with the council, but his jerkassery becomes more apparent than ever once he becomes a vampire.
%% * KilledOffForReal: Is staked through the heart Alaric.
* RevengeByProxy: Tries to turn Caroline into a vampire in order to get back at the Sheriff for covering up his death.
%% * StalkerWithACrush: To Jenna, especially after he became a vampire.
%% * UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Inverted. If he hadn't killed that girl, Stefan and Damon would have left town and Mystic Falls probably would have been a lot worse off.
* WeHardlyKnewYe: He only appears in five episodes and then dies for good.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Meredith Fell]]
!!Dr. Meredith Fell
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/meredith_fell.jpg]]
->'''Played By:''' Creator/TorreyDeVitto
----
* AdaptationNameChange: Her last name is Sulez in the novels.
* AdaptationRelationshipOverhaul In the novels, Meredith is part of Elena close circle of friends along with Bonnie and Caroline. In the series, Meredith is older than them, being part of the town's council and has never met them prior to season 3.
* AdaptationalWimp: In the books, Meredith is a skilled vampire hunter whose mental strength is so great that she can resist vampire compulsion and is the only person ''Damon'' admits to being afraid of. In the series, she has no fighting capabilities.
* AgeLift: Her book counterpart is in the same age range as Elena, Bonnie and Caroline. In the show, she is older than them and is around Alaric's age.
%% * AloofDarkHairedGirl: She is a brunette with a calm demeanor and is not easily shaken or intimidated.
%% So is she a nice gal, or aloof?
%%
%% * BornLucky: She gets fired two days in a row, but manages to keep her job because both of the terminating parties are killed.
%% There is more to this trope.
* BrainyBrunette: She's very clever and has long brown hair.
* ColorMotif: She often has maroon on.
%% * DeadpanSnarker
* DrowningMySorrows: She's known to resort to drinking after losing a patient.
* HospitalHottie: She's a very attractive doctor who works at Mystic Falls Hospital.
* HyperAwareness: She's extremely good at noticing small details or deducing things. She can usually recognize vampires just by looking at them, at easily notices Matt and Elena hiding in her closet when they break into her home.
* IgnoreTheFanservice: She's noticeably one of the few female characters in the series not to show any attraction to vampires, and actually showing distaste when they attempt to charm or seduce her, such as Damon and Kol.
* LoveInterest: For Alaric, who she shares most of her scenes. She's notably his only love interest to have survived his CartwrightCurse.
* TheMedic: Once she's on good terms with the main cast, they often seek her help with medical matters.
%% * MsFanservice: She dresses nicely and uses a decent amount of makeup.
* NerdsAreSexy: A very pretty, intellectual woman.
* NiceGirl: She's very kind and cares a lot about her patients.
* PutOnABus: In Season 6, it's revealed she married a pediatrician and moved to Alaska. Might also count as ScrewThisImOuttaHere given how crazy things had been getting in Mystic Falls.
* RaceLift: Meredith is Hispanic in the books. Here she is played by a white actress of Italian descent.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: She's one of the council members more inclined to reason with the supernatural than just attacked it.
* RedHerring: Was one of the suspects for Brian's murder, as she was his ex and was seen arguing with him the night he died.
* RememberTheNewGuy: She is a member of the Founders Council who helps run the town, but only appears in Season 3.
* TheSmartGirl: She is very keen and she can easily tell vampires from humans when she first meets them. She is also a medical doctor.
* WorkingWithTheEx Had to work with her ex Brian Walters on the hospital and as a member of the council. Due to her dislike for him, she's Damon's primary suspect when he's found dead.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Tripp Cooke]]
!!Tripp Cooke (born Thomas Vincent Fell III)
[[quoteright:270:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/7e101bc52b76ec981e05278d0210ff94.png]]
->'''Portrayed by:''' Creator/ColinFerguson
->''"Vampires. They are real. And one murdered my wife."''
Tripp Cooke, born Thomas Vincent Fell III, is the head of Mystic Falls new militia community in Season Six whose trainees include Matt Donovan. Tripp is determined to protect his town at all costs. He is also a vampire hunter.
----
* AntiHero: Of Type IV.
* BadassNormal: When he's not training his community militia, Tripp hunts down vampires - one has to be a badass in order to do so.
* BigBad: Of the first seven episodes of Season Six.
%% * DisappearedDad
* EmbarrassingNickname: He changed his name from Thomas "Tripp" Vincent Fell to Tripp Cooke with the given explanation below.
-->"My dad called me "Tripp", I was such a clumsy kid that . . . I took my mom's maiden name when he bailed - I mean could you imagine? '''Tripp Fell'''?"
* FateWorseThanDeath: Tripp is firm in his believe that being a vampire is worse than death.
* AFatherToHisMen: Tripp serves a surrogate father figure to his young militia trainees.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Tripp uses the Traveller witches' Magic Purification Spell over Mystic Falls to exterminate vampires. [[spoiler: Guess what Enzo does to deliver some comeuppance on Tripp for trying to kill him? See KarmicDeath and KarmicTransformation below.]]
* ItsPersonal: His wife Kris was killed by a vampire [[RightinFrontOfMe right in front of him]]. Futhermore the vampire compelled him to think she died of a car accident which was his fault. His crusade against vampires has shades of this.
* KarmicDeath: When Tripp crosses over the Magic Purification border, he suddenly dies via slit throat, [[spoiler: revealing he'd been transformed into a vampire]].
* KarmicTransformation: [[spoiler: Tripp was transformed into a vampire by Enzo, the very creatures he hated.]]
%% * KilledOffForReal
%% * KnightTemplar
%% * KubrickStare
%% * TheLeader
* TheLostLenore: His wife Kris was killed by a vampire.
* ShedTheFamilyName: Tripp's from the Founding Families, the Fells. He took on his mother's maiden name after his father [[ParentalAbandonment abandoned him]].
* SlashedThroat: How he's [[KilledOffscreen killed off-screen]] courtesy of Enzo for his KarmicTransformation into a vampire.
%% * VampireHunter
%% * WellIntentionedExtremist
* WhatTheHellHero: After the Mystic Falls vampires capture him, his own men hold Sheriff Forbes hostage. Matt calls him out on this.
[[/folder]]
!Other Families
!!Bennett Family
[[folder:Bonnie Bennett]]
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/bonnie_bennet.jpg]]
->'''Portrayed by:''' Creator/KatGraham
->''"You saw what I was able to do tonight. I know who I am now. If Damon spills one drop of human blood, I'll take him down.''"
----
--> See Characters/TheVampireDiariesUniverseMysticFallsGang.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Sheila Bennett]]
!!Sheila 'Grams' Bennett
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/SheilaBennett_234.jpg]]
->'''Portrayed by''': Creator/JasmineGuy
->''"I am not Bonnie. You don`t wanna mess with me."''
----
%%* CoolOldLady
%%* CoolTeacher: She taught at Whitmore before she died.
* KilledOffForReal: The effort for breaking the spell sealing the vampires in the tomb to release Stefan and Damon had greatly weakened her. She died not much time later.
* TheMentor: She's Bonnie's witchcraft mentor in season 1.
* MentorOccupationalHazard: Ends up dying shortly after taking Bonnie as her witch apprentice.
* NeverMessWithGranny: She might be old, but she's still a dangerous witch and isn't easily intimidated, even by vampires.
SassyBlackWoman: She is a very strong-willed and sassy black woman.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Abby Bennett]]
!!Abby Bennett
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/AbbyBennett_4504.jpg]]
->'''Portrayed by''': Creator/PersiaWhite
->''"Your grams is way better at this stuff than I am."''
----
%%* HotWitch: Used to be this before Damon turned her into a vampire.
%%* MissingMom: To Bonnie.
%%* NeckSnap: How Damon kills her and she transitions into a vampire.
* ParentalAbandonment: She abandoned Bonnie when Mikael came to town many years ago, and imprisoning him takes away all her magic, resulting in her never going back to her family.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Rudy Hopkins]]
!!Rudy Hopkins
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/emily_bennett.jpg]]
->'''Portrayed by:''' Creator/RickWorthy
Rudy Hopkins was the mayor of Mystic Falls, the ex-husband of Abby Bennett Wilson and the father of Bonnie Bennett.
----
* CallBack: He later goes through with Bill Forbes's plan of putting vervain in the water supply.
* TheGhost: Spends three and a half seasons being unseen until season 4.
* KilledOffForReal: By Silas who slits his throat.
* LockedOutOfTheLoop: Just like her friends, he was unaware that Bonnie was dead as Jeremy was sending texts and messages to make it look like she was still alive. He was still unaware at the moment of his death.
* OverprotectiveDad: The moment he arrives in town and becomes mayor, he attempts to keep Bonnie away from her vampire friends and stop her from using magic even to help them. Though justified by the fact that he didn't want her to get killed by vampires and he was afraid that her using magic would make her end up like her mother who lost her powers and eventually ended up getting turned into a vampire and abandoned her family before that because of her witch duties.
* {{Muggle}}: Minor human character on the show and died as a human as well without ever being turned into a vampire.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Emily Bennett]]
!!Emily Bennett
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/AbbyBennett_4504.jpg]]
->'''Portrayed by''': Creator/BiancaLawson & Creator/KatGraham
A powerful witch from the Bennett family in the 19th century who was Katherine Pierce's personal handmaiden.
----
* BurnTheWitch: She was executed by the Mystic Falls council via being burned at the stake.
* IOweYouMyLife: She became Katherine's handmaiden and servant after Katherine saved her life in an event that is [[NoodleIncident not elaborated upon]]. Ironically, she ends up dying due to Katherine betraying her.
* SheKnowsTooMuch: Katherine snitches that she's a witch to the town council, due to Katherine sees Emily as a loose end who knew too much about her to be left alive.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Qetsiyah]]
!!Qetsiyah ([=AKA=] Tessa)
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/qetsiyah.png]]
->'''Portrayed By''': Creator/JaninaGavankar
->''Have you ''not'' been listening to me? I have trust issues. I'm controlling and paranoid and a little crazy!... And that's working out just fine.''
Qetsiyah (Ancient Greek: Kετσιυαη) was the oldest known ancestor of the Bennett bloodline, and a powerful Traveler witch. She was the first witch who discovered how to grant a person immortality. But then she was betrayed and tricked by her lover Silas, who wanted the immortality for himself and his true love, thus a vengeful Qetsiyah entombed him and created The Other Side to make sure he and his true love would never reunite. For the crime of creating immortality she was executed by The Travels, but even from The Other Side, she still plots her revenge.
----
--> See Characters/TheVampireDiariesUniverseQetsiyah.
[[/folder]]
!!Donovan Family
[[folder:Matt Donovan]]
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/matt_donovan.jpg]]
->'''Portrayed by:''' Creator/ZachRoerig
->''"I get it, this is your life now. But you know what my life is, Caroline? My life is an absentee mom, and a bunch of bills to pay, and school, and a job, and it sucks sometimes, but it's my life and I think that I just want to live it without all this.''"
----
--> See Characters/TheVampireDiariesUniverseMysticFallsGang.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Vicki Donovan]]
!!Vicki Donovan
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/vicki_donovan_2.png]]
->'''Portrayed by''': Creator/KaylaEwell
->''"Don't start with the little twelve-steps thing. School councilor has been down that road, it doesn`t work for me."''
\\
Matt's older sister and Jeremy's first girlfriend, Vicki is a compulsive drug user who gets high to avoid her crappy life. She is turned by Damon on a whim.
----
* AdaptationOriginConnection: Her book counterpart Vickie Bennett wasn't related to Matt, while show Vickie is his older sister.
%% * AllMenArePerverts: As she believes.
* AnyoneCanDie: Was the first major character in the show to die, via a NeckSnap by Damon. Even after she came BackFromTheDead as a vampire, it didn't last and she got KilledOffForReal.
%% * BrokenBird
* BrutalHonesty: She has a very blunt personality and likes peaking whatever is on her mind, without consideration for other people's feelings.
%% * TheBusCameBack: As a ghost.
* ChildishOlderSibling: Although Vicki is the older sibling, Matt is the responsible one and often reprimands Vicki for her consistent recklessness and tries his best to look out for her.
* ColdTurkeysAreEverywhere: After she is turned, everyone around her suddenly looks like a walking blood bag. According to Stefan, this is usual for a new vampire.
* FoolishSiblingResponsibleSibling: The Foolish to Matt's Responsible. Vicki is reckless and self-centered and has a major problem with addiction.
* FreudianExcuse: Her attitude comes from her awful family situation, with her DisappearedDad and [[ParentalNeglect neglectful mother]].
* GoodBadGirl: Although Vickie has a good heart, she's still a major rebel who likes partying, drugs and sex.
* HorrorHunger: Vicki feels like this all the time as a newborn vampire. Stefan tells Elena Vicki's past as a drug addict makes this much worse for her than other new vampires. When she tastes Jeremy's blood she turns berserk and Stefan is forced to kill her.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: She often acts like a {{Jerkass}} to most people, including her LoveInterest Jeremy and brother Matt. Deep down she does genuinely care about them, but is too selfish and irresponsible for it to show.
* KilledOffForReal: Stefan has to stake and kill Vampire Vickie in order to protect Elena and Jeremy from her uncontrollable blood lust.
* MsFanservice: She [[LingerieScene dances around in her undies]] under Damon's compulsion.
* ReallyGetsAround: According to Tyler, Vicki is very promiscuous around school and is pissed off when she refuses to sleep with him.
* SacrificialLion: As a MidSeasonTwist, Vicki gets killed off to prove the point that {{anyone can die}}. She's Matt's sister and the first character turned into a vampire onscreen, and the center of a prominent secondary {{love triangle}} between Jeremy and Tyler.
* TheStoner: Along with Jeremy, she is a major drug addict, with the majority of her scenes having her stoned.
* WeHardlyKnewYe: Despite being a major character (Matt's sister and involved in a LoveTriangle between Jeremy and Tyler) she dies after seven episodes. PlayedWith in that she does become a recurring character who appears as a ghost in almost every season.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Kelly Donovan]]
!!Kelly Donovan
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/kelly_donovan.jpg]]
->'''Portrayed by''': Creator/MelindaClarke.
----
* AbortedArc: The writers originally planned for her to be a [[HornyDevils succubus]] back in season one, but the plot was cut for being too dark and she got written out.
* AlcoholicParent: She spends most of her time getting drunk and partying and neglecting Matt because of this.
* BackForTheFinale: In the finale. She comes back to town to meet Matt and Peter for Caroline's wedding. She actually becomes important to the plot when it's revealed she's actually dead and is an agent sent by [[BigBad Katherine]].
* GenerationXerox: Retroactively, it's easy to see from where Vicki got her HardDrinkingPartyGirl attitude from, as Kelly is basically an adult version of Vicki.
* KilledOffscreen: Shed dies at some point between being PutOnABus and the GrandFinale. The fact that neither her son or ex-husband knew about it says a lot about her life.
* LadyDrunk: She's a HardDrinkingPartyGirl who got old but never dropped the drinking habit, even for the sake of her children.
* MrsRobinson: Despite her age, she's still very attractive and ends up making out with both Damon and Tyler. Poor Matt.
* ReallyGetsAround: She's incredibly promiscuous and has had tons of lovers and boyfriends, and constantly cheats on them too.
* PutOnABus: Matt kicked her out of their home after he caught her making out with Tyler, and she left town.
* WackyParentSeriousChild: A sad variation given she's an irresponsible AlcoholicParent, forcing her son Matt to be the responsible one.
* {{Womanchild}}: Matt is more of a parent to her than she is to him, being that she's an irresponsible alcoholic.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Peter Maxwell]]
!!Peter Maxwell
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/8x04_an_eternity_of_misery_1.jpg]]
->'''Portrayed by''': Creator/JoelGretsch
Peter is Matt and Vicki Donavan's father and he abandoned his family a long time ago. He is shocked when Matt walks back into his life to reconnect — and to drags him into a world of supernatural dangers.
----
* TheAtoner: He is trying to make it up to Matt for abandoning him and the family years ago.
* DisappearedDad: He abandoned his family when he left Mystic Falls years ago.
* LockedOutOfTheLoop: When he lived in Mystics Falls he was unaware of the existence of vampires and doesn't learn of this until Damon shows up.
* TheReveal: He is revealed to be Matt's father in his debut episode. This also makes him Vicki's father.
[[/folder]]
!!Martin Family
[[folder:Jonas Martin]]
!!Jonas Martin
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/jonas_martin.jpg]]
->'''Portrayed by''': Creator/RandyJGoodwin
A doctor who moves into Mystic Falls with his family in season 2. He's actually a powerful witch in Elijah' service.
----
* AgonyBeam: His main method of combat is using a pain infliction spell that causes his opponents crippling pain. He can even cast it on multiple people at once.
* AntiVillain: He and his son are agents of an original vampire named Elijah, because he desired to kill Klaus, after he kidnapped his sister.
* CharacterDeath: By Katherine.
* PapaWolf: He's protective of his children, with the whole reason he came to Mystic Falls in the first place is to find his missing daughter and he goes ballistic once Damon ends up killing his son.
* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: His son is killed by Damon Salvatore, which led Jonas to go on a rampage and hurting many people before finally being [[spoiler: disposed of by Katherine]].
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Luka Martin]]
!!Luka Martin
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/luka_martin_tvd.png]]
->'''Portrayed by''': Creator/BrytonJames
->''"We're all bonded together by a code of loyalty to help each other."''
A new student who moves into Mystic Falls with his family in season 2.
----
* AntiVillain: He and his father are agents of an original vampire named Elijah, because he desired to kill Klaus, after he kidnapped his sister
* BettyAndVeronica: In season 2 he's the Veronica to Jeremy's Betty for Bonnie's Archie, being the confident and charming LoveInterest in comparison to the awkward Jeremy.
* CommonalityConnection: Part of the reason he's attracted to Bonnie is that fact she's from a witch family like him.
%%* DeadpanSnarker
* CharacterDeath: He was incinerated by Damon while he and his father were trying to resurrect Elijah. He ended up succumbing to his injuries, even after his father tried to cure him with a spell.
* HotWitch: Of the male kind, though he prefers to be called a warlock.
* LaserGuidedAmnesia: Once Bonnie finds out he and his dad work for Elijah, she kidnaps, interrogates him and erases the memory of what happened, so as not to tip his dad and Elijah.
%% * NiceGuy
* RomanticRunnerUp: He briefly gets involved in a LoveTriangle between him, Bonnie, and Jeremy but ends up amounting to nothing more than this.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Greta Martin]]
!!Greta Martin
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/greta_martin_tvd.png]]
->'''Portrayed by''': Creator/LisaTucker
The witch daughter of Jonas Martin and a loyal servant of Klaus, who is in charge of breaking the Hybrid curse.
----
--> See Characters/TheVampireDiariesUniverseTheOriginalsAndAssociates.
[[/folder]]
!!Young Family
[[folder:Pastor Young]]
!!Pastor Young
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/pastor_young_s4.png]]
->'''Portrayed by''': Creator/MichaelReillyBurke
->''"Fear not. For I have been chosen to lead us in the movement. Hear me, loved ones: Soon you’ll be free to pass through the gates, and we’ll all be united for eternity."''
The new leader of the Founder's Council in season four. He kills himself at the end of the premiere.
----
* CharacterDeath: When he blows himself up, alongside the entire new council.
* MyDeathIsJustTheBeginning: It's seen at the end of the episode that he knows killing himself and the Council will bring about some sort of catastrophe. And with the revelation that extremely dark magic - called 'expression' by witches - requires the sacrifice of twelve souls to work...
* RememberTheNewGuy: He's only introduced in season 4, but he's supposedly an influential member of the Mystic Falls community, enough that he's picked to be TheLeader if the new town council.
* TakingYouWithMe: He invites all the members of the Council (save for the members he kicked out) to his farm, and kills them all along with himself by blowing up his farmhouse. It's later revealed he did that on the orders of Professor Shane, as the death of the council members was the first massacre necessary to create the Expression Triangle.
* VampireHunter: He is a pastor who secretly kills and hunts vampires.
%% * VillainWithGoodPublicity: As a pastor he has the love and respect of the whole town and many show up to his funeral.
%% What makes him a villain?
* WeHardlyKnewYe: He ends up dying at the end of the episode he's introduced.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:April Young]]
!!April Young
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/april_young.png]]
->'''Portrayed By''': Creator/GracePhipps
April Young is the daughter of a dangerous vampire hunter Pastor Young, who first appeared in Season Four of The Vampire Diaries. She spent her childhood in Mystic Falls, but after her mother's death, her father sent her to boarding school. Following her father's death in Growing Pains, April returned to Mystic Falls and re-enrolled at Mystic Falls High School. Upon her return, she was quickly thrown into the middle of a fight between a member of the Brotherhood of the Five and the town's vampires, leading her to eventually learn about the supernatural world.
----
* BreakTheCutie: In her very first episode, she was stabbed by Connor and left to bleed to death during her father's funeral in an attempt to draw out the town's vampires. After that, she's been bitten, attacked, held hostage, and compelled more times than she can count and by episode 10, she is understandably upset when she discovers that all her friends have been lying to her.
%% * BuffySpeak
* ChildrenAreInnocent: She tries to befriend '''Rebekah'''. You know the sister of '''Klaus'''. Although it's justified, she doesn't know about vampires yet. Though Rebekah does enjoy being her friend.
%% * TheCutie
* FlatCharacter: She is mostly just around the other characters and is only apart of the plot because of being Pastor Young's daughter.
* GenkiGirl: April is very hyper and spirited.
%% * GirlyGirl
* GirlNextDoor: Friendly, good natured and even plain.
* MoralityPet: For Rebekah.
* NaiveEverygirl: April is highly idealistic and naive.
* NiceGirl: April is a sweet, kind and caring girl to everyone around her.
* OffToBoardingSchool: The excuse of why she wasn't in town in the previous seasons is that she was sent to a boarding school after her mother dies, and only came back after her father's death.
* PluckyGirl: April is optimistic and friendly.
%%* ThePollyanna: See PluckyGirl.
* PreachersKid: Despite being one, this really has nothing to do with her character.
* RememberTheNewGuy: She's introduced as an old friend of the rest of the Mystic Falls gang, who had been [[OffToBoardingSchool shipped off to a boarding school]] after her mother's death.
* SpannerInTheWorks: [[spoiler: Because she was wearing Jeremy's vervain necklace, she's immune to Caroline's attempt to compel her. Subsequently, she overhears the location of Rebekah's coffin and decides to investigate, before undaggering her]].
* TagalongKid: Ends up tagging along with Rebecca and mostly just hangs around the others.
* TokenHuman: In season 4, she is one of the few human characters left on the show.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Her character disappears without elaboration after season 4.
[[/folder]]
!!Tomb Vampires
[[folder: Anna Zhu]]
!!Annabelle "Anna" Zhu
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/anna_tvd.jpg]]
->'''Portrayed by''': Creator/MaleseJow
->''"Dracula was a complete wuss. Never showered. Very smelly."''
----
* ActionGirl: Anna is tough, capable and strong. As a [[StrongerWithAge centuries-old vampire, she is one of the oldest vampires]] in the series and is stronger than Damon and Stefan.
* AllThereInTheManual: The prequel novel ''Stefan Diaries'' reveals Anna got sick as a child and Pearl begged Katherine to turn her into a vampire to save her.
* AsianAndNerdy: Anna is smart, intellectual and nerdy. She is also a hardcore bookworm. She is of Chinese origin.
* BackFromTheDead: [[spoiler: She's back after she's staked, but only as a ghost that Jeremy sees in season three.]]
* BadassAdorable: Anna is small and petite but she is capable of defending and fighting for herself when she has to.
* BadassBookworm: Scholarly, nerdy intelligent and very much a bookworm, but she is not afraid to deliver a beatdown to anyone try gin to stop her from opening her moms tomb.
* BecomingTheMask: Originally she befriended Jeremy in order to obtain his ancestor's journal but later, she really falls in love with him.
%% * BettyAndVeronica: Anna could be seen as the Veronica to Bonnie's Betty for Jeremy's Archie.
%% How?
%%
%% * BewareTheNiceOnes: She may look cute but do not underestimate her.
* BrainyBrunette: Anna is very smart, brunette who is intelligent and quick. She also seems to be quite scholarly and loves research.
* BroodingBoyGentleGirl: Anna is the Gentle Girl to Jeremy's Brooding Boy, being a fairly compassionate individual despite her ultimate goals of freeing the Tomb Vampires.
%% * TheBusCameBack: As a ghost.
* CanonForeigner: Anna doesn't exist in the books.
%% * ClingyJealousGirl: She seemed this way in regards to Jeremy and his relationships with both Bonnie and Vicki.
* CuteBookworm: Anna loves books, she loves to read and loves research. She's a petite and lovely girl.
* CuteBruiser: Anna is very cute but she can kick anyone's ass. She's not to be underestimated.
%% * TheCutie:
* DarkIsNotEvil: She's dark-haired and wears dark colours but overall, she has good to neutral intentions.
* DeadpanSnarker: She has her witty and sarcastic moments, such as her page quote.
* TheDeterminator: Anna did everything to get her mother back from the tomb in which she was imprisoned in for over a century.
%% * DoggedNiceGirl: Towards Jeremy.
* FriendlyNeighborhoodVampire: Much like her mother, she has no evil intentions towards humans and doesn't even enjoy being a vampire. Her stint as an antagonist was only in an effort to free her mother from imprisonment.
%% * GenkiGirl: Especially when she gets excited.
* GhostReunionEnding: In Season Three, ghost Anna tells Jeremy she hadn't encountered her mother on The Other Side and feared Pearl might have moved on without her. However, Anna and Pearl had an emotional reunion in "Ghost World", and move on together.
%% * GirlyBruiser: She's feminine but also an ActionGirl and not to be underestimated.
%% * GirlNextDoor: She appears this way, even though she is a vampire.
%% * GoodIsNotNice: Generally nice but don't cross her or get on her bad side.
%% * GoodIsNotSoft: She may be a cute and sweet girl, but she can kick ass when she has to.
%% * GorgeousPeriodDress: Wore them during the 1864 flashbacks.
%% * HeelFaceTurn: Although she was never really evil, her love for Jeremy made her want to stay in Mystic Falls.
%% If she was never evil, than she's not an example.
%%
* HellBentForLeather: Like many other vampires, Anna sometimes wears leather jackets, which makes her look all tough and badass.
* IJustWantToBeNormal: Anna is a vampire that desires to be a normal girl and be a regular teenager.
* IJustWantToHaveFriends: Anna desires friendship, companionship and love, hence why she first befriended and then fell in love with Jeremy Gilbert.
* {{Immortality}}: Anna had the ability to live forever without physically aging. She's an immortal vampire.
* KilledOffForReal: She is killed via stake through the heart by John Gilbert, so she's dead-dead even for a show that has resurrections and is full of supernatural beings
%% * KillTheCutie
%% * LoveHurts: In regards to Jeremy.
* LoveInterest: She's romantically interested in Jeremy and he reciprocates in season one. Sadly, she is tragically killed off at the end of the first season. Jeremy makes it clear that he still loves her despite her unexpected death and it takes many seasons for Jeremy to move on from Anna, even when Jeremy moved on with Bonnie in a relationship in season two. Even after she dies, Jeremy still considers Anna as his one true love.
* LoveRedeems: Anna isn't necessarily bad by any means, but her love for Jeremy definitely brought out the nicer and softer side of her, her humanity.
* ManicPixieDreamGirl: Anna is introduced as a cheerful presence to the brooding Jeremy in season one. Subverted in that it was a deliberate plot to get close to him.
* TheMole: She pretended to join the remaining vengeful tomb vampires who were planning to wipe out the humans of Mystic Falls in order to feed information to the townspeople. John Gilbert doesn't care and simply has her staked when she's immobilized by the anti-vampire device.
* MotorMouth: Once Anna gets going, she can't stop talking, especially if the topic is something she finds important or something that she is passionate about.
%% * MysteriousWaif: In the beginning, when she first meets Jeremy.
%% * {{Nerd}}: She is highly intelligent and is quite a bit of a bookworm.
* NerdsAreSexy: Anna may be a nerd, but she is also stylish and conveniently attractive.
%% * NiceGirl: Anna is generally nice and friendly however, don't get on her bad side.
%% * NiceHat: Wore one during the 1864 flashbacks.
%% * TheOjou: During the 1864 flashbacks.
%% * PerkyGoth: Wears a lot of black clothing and has dark hair and pale skin.
%% * PimpedOutDress: During the 1864 flashbacks.
%% * PluckyGirl: Anna is very optimistic and upbeat.
%% * ThePollyanna: See PluckyGirl.
%% NO. Each trope needs to be explained on its own terms.
%%
%% * PsychoticLoveTriangle: With Bonnie and Vicki over the affections of Jeremy. Although Bonnie isn't psychotic, Vicki was certainly crossing the crazy line, especially as a ghost.
* RavenHairIvorySkin: Anna has very black hair and very pale skin. She's also considered exceptionally beautiful.
* Really700YearsOld: She's introduced as a normal human teenager, but it's quickly revealed to be a vampire who [[TheAgeless has been alive with that appearance for centuries]]. She even knew Dracula who died before Katherine was turned.
%% * SecondLove: To Jeremy. Vicki was the first.
%% * SingleWomanSeeksGoodMan: Her relationship with Jeremy.
%% * TheSmartGirl: Anna is very intelligent.
%% Smarter than other people in her group? Among her peers?
%%
%% * {{Tsundere}}: Type B, towards Jeremy.
* WaifFu: Small and petite but still has the SuperStrength of a centuries-old vampire.
%% * WideEyedIdealist: Anna is highly idealistic.
%% EXPLAIN this in detail.
%%
[[/folder]]
[[folder: Pearl]]
!!Pearl Zhu
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/pearl_tvd_modern.jpg]]
[[quoteright:350:''[[labelnote:Click here to see her 1864 appearance ]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/pearl_tvd_past.jpg[[/labelnote]]'']]
->'''Portrayed by''': Creator/KellyHu
->''"Mystic Falls is our home, Damon! They took that from us, our land, our home. It's time we rebuild!"''
----
%% * ActionMom: Pearl is very active when she needs to be.
* AffablyEvil: She's polite and ladylike to others for the most part and wishes no ill on the populace of Mystic Falls, but can be scheming and manipulative when she wants something.
* AllThereInTheManual: The prequel novel ''Stefan Diaries'' reveals Pearl lost her entire family to a disease during the Revolutionary War; she and Anna were the {{Sole Survivor}}s as Katherine sired both of them to save them from the disease.
* AloofDarkHairedGirl: Pearl is a dark-haired woman with a rather aloof and poised attitude.
* AntiVillain: She has no real animosity towards humans and only wants to make a life for herself and her daughter.
* BadassBoast: When she threatens Damon.
-->'''Pearl to Damon:''' I have 400 years on you, little boy. I'll rip you from limb to limb without even blinking, and you know it.
%% * TheBeautifulElite: Pearl comes from a noble family and seems to be wealthy.
* BestFriend: She was Katherine's closest friend in 1864, although Katherine didn't value their friendship enough to try to set her free.
%% * BitchInSheepsClothing: Pearl is very polite on the surface, but at the same time, she can very ruthless and cunning whenever she wants to be.
%% HOW IS SHE CUNNING?
%%
%% * BrainyBrunette: Pearl is very strategic and smart and she seems to be a planner by nature.
* TheBusCameBack: She briefly reappears as a ghost in Season Three, just long enough for an emotional reunion with Anna.
* CanonForeigner: Pearl doesn't exist in the books.
%% * CulturedBadass: Pearl is very cultured and sophisticated. She appears to come from nobility.
%% EXPLAIN THE BADASS PART
%%
* DarkActionGirl: A centuries-old vampire, once she's back to her full strength, she has no problem subduing Damon.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: She truly loves her daughter Anna.
* FriendlyNeighborhoodVampire: She feeds from blood bags at hospitals and has no interest in terrorizing the human populace of Mystic Falls like some of her fellow tomb vampire members.
* GhostReunionEnding: In Season Three, ghost Anna tells Jeremy she hasn't encountered Pearl on The Other Side and fears Pearl might have moved on without her. However, Anna and Pearl have an emotional reunion in "Ghost World" and move on together.
%% * GorgeousPeriodDress: Is seen wearing them in the 1864 flashbacks.
* {{Immortality}}: Like all vampires, Pearl had the ability to live forever without physically aging.
* InSeriesNickname: Her real name is Zhen Zhu, but she's mostly known as Pearl.
* IronLady: Pearl is rather stern, authoritarian, domineering, and overprotective, especially when it comes to her daughter, Anna. Given everything they've been through, it's hard to blame her.
%% * KickingAssInAllHerFinery: Pearl kicks ass in her finest and most chic clothing.
* KilledOffForReal: She's permanently killed by John Gilbert via a silent compressed air stake gun.
* KnightTemplarParent: She becomes much more protective toward Anna after being release from the Tomb, since Johnathan Gilbert's betrayal hurt her deeply and she fears Anna might face the same thing if she continues to seek a relationship with Jeremy.
%% * LadyOfAdventure: Pearl seemed to travel around the world.
%% more context is needed
%%
* TheLeader: She was accepted as the leader of the tomb vampires after their release, but struggles as most of them want {{revenge}} on the Mystic Fall townsfolk while she simply wants to regain their former glory.
* MamaBear: ''Very'' protective of Anna. Pearl won't hesitate to kill or harm anyone who so much as goes near her daughter.
* MonsterSlayerRomance: Back in 1864 she was in a romance with VampireHunter Johnathan Gilbert, which quickly dissolved once she was revealed and he attempted to kill her.
* SealedEvilInACan: She and the rest of the 1864 Mystic fall vampires spent 146 years trapped in the tomb without blood.
%% * SingleWomanSeeksGoodMan: In regards to Pearl's affections for Johnathan Gilbert back in 1864.
* {{Socialite}}: She acts as a ProperLady during 1864 to blend into high society. She even has the PimpedOutDress with the proper [[OfCorsetsSexy corsets]], OperaGloves, and NiceHat. After she's freed from the tomb, she attempts to reintroduce herself to 21st-century society in Mystic Falls and recover her previous property, adopting a more modern look by becoming a SharpDressedWoman.
* TheStoic: Pearl keeps her emotions in check most of the time.
* WeHardlyKnewYe: She dies and leaves the show after a few episodes.
* WidowWoman: She lost her husband and three of her children to disease, with only herself and Anna surviving due to being turned by Katherine.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Harper]]
!!Harper
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/tvd_harper.jpg]]
->'''Portrayed by''': Creator/SterlingSulieman
One of the vampires that was part of Pearl's group in 1864 and got locked inside the tomb with her.
----
* ApologeticAttacker: He apologizes to the random hiker that he crosses path just after his escape, and them promptly kills him for his blood and his clothes.
* KilledOffForReal: He's permanently killed by John Gilbert via a silent compressed air stake gun.
* MuggedForDisguise: After escaping the tomb, he attacks a kills a man in a forest in order to get his clothes, knowing he can't pass off as a civilian wearing clothing from 1864.
* OnlyOneName: He's only known as Harper and [[NoFullNameGiven his full name is never given]].
* UndyingLoyalty: Of the Tomb Vampires, he's by far the most loyal to Pearl, even standing up to Frederick and his followers when they defied Pearl's rule.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Frederick]]
!!Frederick
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/tvd_frederick.png]]
->'''Portrayed by''': Creator/StephenMartines
One of the vampires that was part of Pearl's group in 1864 and got locked inside the tomb with her.
----
* CallAHumanAMeatbag: His attitude towards humans is that they are only good as food and amusement.
* DumbMuscle: He prefers quick action and violence to Pearl's pragmatic way of dealing with Mystic Falls.
* KilledOffForReal: He's destroyed when staked in the heart by Stefan and Elena.
* OnlyOneName: He's only known as Frederick and [[NoFullNameGiven his full name is never given]].
* RevengeBeforeReason: He's completely driven by his desire for {{Revenge}} against the Mystic Falls townspeople and the Salvatore brothers, whom he blames for his long imprisonment inside the tomb. He's even willing to defy his mistress to get his revenge, even if it compromises their position in the town.
* TheStarscream: He leads a rebellion against Pearl's rule when she's away from town in order to get his revenge on the Salvatores, capturing and torturing Stefan against her orders.
[[/folder]]
!!Other Characters
[[folder: William Tanner]]
!!William Tanner
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/william_tanner.png]]
->'''Portrayed by''': Creator/BenjaminAyres
The gang's history teacher at Mystic Falls High School at the beginning of the series who also coaches the football team. He is killed by Damon.
----
* ZeroPercentApprovalRating: He's a history teacher and all of the students hate him.
* AssholeVictim: He doesn't really show Elena, Jenna, or Jeremy any sympathy. Damon kills him just to make a point.
* DroppedABridgeOnHim: His death is very sudden.
* {{Jerkass}}: Everybody hates him. He even keeps a file on the students who annoyed him. Alaric isn't impressed when he finds it.
* KilledOffForReal: By Damon, who kills him just to prove to Stefan how evil he is.
* SadistTeacher: Though his actions suggest that he does want his students to do well. He seems genuinely impressed by Stefan.
* SmallNameBigEgo: The man has enough hot air to refloat the Hindenburg but gets the year the Korean War ended wrong.
[[/folder]]
[[folder: Monique]]
!!"Sarah" Salvatore / Monique
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/6b51c108951b039eac209a87ae870cf2.jpg]]
->'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/GabrielleWalsh
A young woman who arrives in Mystic Falls in search of her family. She is actually a con artist.
----
* AssholeVictim: Manipulates and lies to Stefan without realizing he's onto her which leads to Enzo killing her.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: She bounced from foster home to foster home until she turned 18 and came to Mystic Falls.
* IAmWho: She arrives to Mystic Falls to find out more about her family. She's lying because she looking into ''Sarah Salvatore's'' birth family whose identity she stole. It's all part of her scheme though.
* IdentityImpersonator: She was a foster kid who met the real Sarah Salvatore at a summer camp when they were kids. Monique since she never had a real family, and picked the Salvatore family to impersonate on the logic that most of them were dead and couldn't question Sarah's identity. Unlucky for her, the Salvatore is a family of vampires.
* LoveInterest: Ends up hooking with Jeremy during her time in Mystic Falls.
* LittleMissConArtist: She introduces herself as 'Sarah Salvatore', the daughter of Stefan and Damon's distant nephew Zach. It isn't until episode 9 she's outed by Stefan and she reveals to him her real name, Monique and that she had only met the real Sarah Salvatore at a summer camp.
* MsFanservice: Jeremy is quick to note she looks hot in a bikini in episode 3 of Season 6.
* NeckSnap: How she meets her end at Enzo's hand.
* OhCrap: When she figures out Stefan has been watching over the ''real'' Sara Salvatore in secret and is now onto her.
* OnlyOneName: She's only known as Monique and [[NoFullNameGiven his full name is never given]].
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Georgie]]
!!Georgie
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/801_021_georgie.png]]
->'''Played By''': Creator/AllisonScagliotti
Georgie, an occult research intern who is working with Alaric to investigate the vault.
----
* BlindfoldedVision: She discovers that the only way to find the entrance to Sybil's cavern is to blindfold themselves and feel for it.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: She was driving home with her friend. She was drunk and had a car accident. Her friend died and she died too, but only for a few moments. When she returned she had a tattoo of a mystical symbol. Georgie tells Alaric that she went to hell during those few moments and believes that if she ever dies again that is where she is going because of her friend's death.
* DraggedOffToHell: After she dies her soul is dragged off into the darkness to the place known as hell.
* KilledOffForReal: Seline snaps her neck.
* RedHerring: The audience is lead to believe that she is Sybil's mystery sister when she breaks into Alaric's house and is threatening Seline when she threatens to call the cops. Also when she later locks Alaric in the cave and knocks out Stefan to try and release Sybil. At the end of the episode though it is revealed that she is actually being mind controlled by Seline who is actually the second Siren.
* ShipTease: In her debut episode she flirts with Alaric, but Alaric turns her down with the explanation that he is focused on his kids and is not looking to get into a relationship right now.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Dorian]]
!!Dorian
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/801_060_dorian.png]]
->'''Played By''': Creator/DemetriusBridges
Intern for Alaric and member of the Armory
----
-> See Characters/TheVampireDiariesUniverseSalvatoreSchoolForTheYoungAndGifted.
[[/folder]]
----
%%
%% Administrivia/ZeroContextExample entries are not allowed on wiki pages. All such entries have been commented out. Add context to the entries before uncommenting them.
%%
%%
[[WMG:[[center:[-''Series/TheVampireDiariesUniverse'' '''[[Characters/TheVampireDiariesUniverse Main Character Index]]'''\\
'''[[Literature/TheVampireDiaries The Vampire Diaries Novels]]'''\\
[[Characters/TheVampireDiariesBookCharacters The Vampire Diaries Book Characters]]\\
'''Series/TheVampireDiaries'''\\
[[Characters/TheVampireDiariesUniverseMysticFallsGang The Mystic Falls Gang]] ([[Characters/TheVampireDiariesUniverseElenaGilbert Elena Gilbert]] | [[Characters/TheVampireDiariesUniverseStefanSalvatore Stefan Salvatore]]) | '''Mystic Falls Citizens''' | [[Characters/TheVampireDiariesUniverseStefansAndDamonsFriends Stefan's and Damon's Friends]] | [[Characters/TheVampireDiariesUniversePetrovaFamily The Petrova Family]] ([[Characters/TheVampireDiariesUniverseKatherinePierce Katherine Pierce]]) | [[Characters/TheVampireDiariesUniverseTheOriginalsAndAssociates The Originals & Associates]] | [[Characters/TheVampireDiariesUniverseWerewolfPacks Werewolf Packs]] |[[Characters/TheVampireDiariesUniverseBrotherhoodOfTheFive The Brotherhood of The Five]] |[[Characters/TheVampireDiariesUniverseTheTravelers The Travelers]] ([[Characters/TheVampireDiariesUniverseSilas Silas]] | [[Characters/TheVampireDiariesUniverseQetsiyah Qetsiyah]]) | [[Characters/TheVampireDiariesUniverseWhitmoreCollege Whitmore College]] | [[Characters/TheVampireDiariesUniverseGeminiCoven Gemini Coven]] | [[Characters/TheVampireDiariesUniverseTheHeretics The Heretics]] | [[Characters/TheVampireDiariesUniverseTheSirens The Sirens]]\\
'''Series/TheOriginals'''\\
[[Characters/TheVampireDiariesUniverseMikaelsons The Mikaelsons]] | ([[Characters/TheVampireDiariesUniverseKlausMikaelson Klaus Mikaelson]]) | [[Characters/TheVampireDiariesUniverseMikaelsonAssociates Mikaelson Associates]] | [[Characters/TheVampireDiariesUniverseOtherHumans Other Humans]] | [[Characters/TheVampireDiariesUniverseOtherVampires Other Vampires]] | [[Characters/TheVampireDiariesUniverseOtherWitches Other Witches]] | [[Characters/TheVampireDiariesUniverseOtherWerewolves Other Werewolves]]\\
'''Series/{{Legacies}}'''\\
''[[Characters/TheVampireDiariesUniverseTheSuperSquad The Super Squad]]'' | ''[[Characters/TheVampireDiariesUniverseSalvatoreSchoolForTheYoungAndGifted The Salvatore Boarding School for the Young and Gifted]]'' | ''[[Characters/TheVampireDiariesUniverseGodsAndDemigods Gods and Demigods]]''-]]]]]
[[foldercontrol]]
!Founding Families
!!Salvatore Family
[[folder: Stefan Salvatore]]
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/s4_003.jpg]]
->'''Portrayed by:''' Creator/PaulWesley
->''"I don't hurt people. I don't do that. I'm the good brother."''
\\
Stefan is a mysterious, handsome century-old immortal. He is a protagonist, and narrator of the series. Stefan is known to be the good vampire brother (between he and Damon) and is seen to be kind, caring, compassionate, heroic and selfless. Stefan tries to avoid drinking human blood due to the fact that he hates hurting or killing anyone (drinking human blood turns him into an insane, amoral "ripper", choosing to feed from the blood of animals instead. Stefan is weaker than most other vampires, in particular his elder brother Damon who has held a grudge against Stefan for over a century. Early in the series, Stefan fatefully meets and falls in love with Elena Gilbert. He develops a mutual romantic relationship with her while protecting her and her loved ones both from his own nature and other vampires. In the season two finale Stefan reverts back to his darker side, the Ripper, in order to save Damon from dying from a fatal werewolf bite. In exchange for the cure (which is Klaus' hybrid blood), he becomes a servant to TheBigBad, Klaus. Since season three onwards, Stefan has turned on his humanity and reverts back to his normal, humane self.
----
--> See Characters/TheVampireDiariesUniverseStefanSalvatore.
[[/folder]]
[[folder: Damon Salvatore]]
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/damon_salvatore.jpg]]
->'''Portrayed by:''' Creator/IanSomerhalder
->''"It's cool not growing old. I like being the eternal stud."''
\\
Damon is Stefan's malevolent, dangerous and impulsive older brother. He is the anti-hero and the antagonist (especially in season one) of the series. He is most certainly ''not'' a Friendly Neighbourhood Vampire. He long ago swore to make Stefan's life "an eternity of misery". At first, he kills a lot of people in Mystic Falls, but later moderates his behaviour for a number of reasons but he remains dangerous. When he wants to, Damon can be charming and hilarious... but also cruel and capricious, and capable of killing on a whim. For the first season, Damon is the series' Antagonist, but has reverted his status to help Stefan and protect Elena.
----
--> See Characters/TheVampireDiariesUniverseMysticFallsGang.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Giuseppe Salvatore]]
!!Giuseppe Salvatore
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Giuseppe_Salvatore_805.jpg]]
->'''Portrayed by''': Creator/JamesRemar
->''"These creatures are of the darkest parts of hell...they must be destroyed!"''
----
* AbusiveParent: He would physically abuse his children as a method of disciplinary action.
%%* ActionDad: Involved amidst all of the vampire action.
%%* AggressiveCategorism: Giuseppe has an IrrationalHatred towards all vampire and sees them all as abominations.
* TheAlcoholic: Stefan mentions how after his mother died, Giuseppe became a heavy drinker.
* BloodKnight: Giuseppe is always eager to kill and eradicate as many vampires as possible.
%%* TheChessmaster: Giuseppe is very manipulative.
%%* ControlFreak: Giuseppe was very controlling and authoritarian by nature.
%%* DirtyCoward
* DrowningMySorrows: After Giuseppe's wife died, he used alcohol as a coping mechanism for his grief.
%%* FantasticRacism: Giuseppe has a hatred against vampires.
%%* TheFundamentalist: A non-religious example. Giuseppe strongly believed that all vampires are evil and incapable of any good.
%% * GentlemanAndAScholar
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Giuseppe tries to stake Stefan as a vampire, but instead, Giuseppe ends up fatally wounded after he was staked by the same stake that he was going to use to kill his own son.
%%* IrrationalHatred: Towards all vampires.
%% * {{Jerkass}}: BIG TIME.
* KarmicDeath: Giuseppe ends up being killed by his own son Stefan, who happens to be a vampire, the one thing that he hunts and despises.
* KilledOffForReal: After rejecting Stefan for siding with the vampires, he tried to stake him with a wooden stake that he broke off himself, but he was thrown aside with the impact of Stefan's unexpected vampire strength and accidentally stabbed himself with the stake.
%%* KnightTemplar: Killed his own sons for trying to help a vampire escape.
%%* ManipulativeBastard: Extremely cunning and manipulative.
%%* OverprotectiveDad: Especially over Stefan.
%%* PapaWolf: Very protective of his sons, especially Stefan.
* ParentalFavoritism: For Stefan, whom he admired for being studious and responsible while he believed his eldest son Damon was irresponsible and lacked any sense of direction.
%%* ThePatriarch: Of the Salvatore family.
%%* PosthumousCharacter
* {{Protectorate}}: As a member of one of the Founding Families of Mystic Falls, Giuseppe had a duty to protect the town of Mystic Falls from vampires.
%%* SharpDressedMan: Always well dressed and well put together.
* TheStoic: Doesn't show emotion and is very stern.
* VampireHunter: Hunts vampires and sees them as an abomination.
%%* WellIntentionedExtremist: See KnightTemplar.
[[/folder]]
[[folder: Zach Salvatore]]
!!Zach Salvatore
[[quoteright:170:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Zach_3771.jpg]]
->'''Portrayed by''': Creator/ChrisWilliamMartin
->''"Blood only runs so deep when you're related to vampires."''
----
* ForgottenFallenFriend: He gets killed by Damon early in season 1, but nobody really seems to care or notice that he's gone and Damon is EasilyForgiven for killing him by the few people that know.
%%* KilledOffForReal: By Damon.
* NeckSnap: Damon kills him by snapping his neck for revenge after Zach helped Stefan lock him up.
%%* OnlySaneMan
* TooDumbToLive: Despite Stefan telling him how dangerous it is to see Damon, he still sees to it to go and taunt him, which gets him killed.
* UnfazedEveryman: He was a human distant nephew who lived with Stefan and Damon initially and took a lot of their antics, and other supernatural elements in stride.
* WeHardlyKnewYe: Dies after five episodes in season 1.
[[/folder]]
[[folder: Lily Salvatore]]
!!Lillian 'Lily' Salvatore
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/tvd7_lily_salvatore.jpg]]
->'''Portrayed by''': Creator/AnnieWersching
->''"You have no idea what devastation feels like. But you will. Because I am going to find a way to get my people back. No matter what it takes."''
Stefan and Damon's mother. Lily died of consumption in 1858. In Season Six, it is revealed Lily actually became a vampire. She eventually became a Ripper vampire like Stefan was. Lily was imprisoned in a Prison World by the Gemini Coven of witches on October 31, 1903.
----
--> See Characters/TheVampireDiariesUniverseTheHeretics.
[[/folder]]
[[folder: Sara Nelson]]
!!Sara Nelson (born Sara Salvatore)
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/74a76c4eb5e057e8f636ac99ee94b87f.jpg]]
->'''Portrayed by''': Creator/TristinMays
->''"This is why I don't go to the Animal Shelter"''
Daughter of Zach Salvatore, Sara is the only living member of the Salvatore bloodline.
----
* BackForTheDead: Returns in season 8 and gets killed by Sybil in the one episode she appears in.
* CharacterDeath: Stabbed by Sybil and dies in front of Stefan in season 8.
* ButNotTooBlack: Justified. Her father was white while her mother was black.
* MoralityPet: To Enzo and Stefan, who try to keep her safe and let down some of their emotions around her.
* NiceGirl: Lampshaded by Enzo. She's friendly and trusting despite her DarkAndTroubledPast
%%* LongLostRelative: Inverted. Stefan knows about her, she just doesn't know about him.
* HappilyAdopted: She is content with her adoptive family and has no interest in re-seeking her roots.
* OrphansOrdeal: Her mother was killed by Damon when she was pregnant (with Sara barely being saved), and her father hypnotized into forgetting she ever existed.
%%* ShipTease: With Matt.
%%* SassyBlackWoman:
* TwoferTokenMinority: Of her own family. She's the only woman and she's biracial.
* WhenSheSmiles: Obviously there's a lot to leave her concerned or upset in the world of the series but when she smiles she looks very bright and cute.
[[/folder]]
!!Gilbert Family
[[folder: Elena Gilbert]]
!!!Elena Gilbert
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/elena_gilbert.jpg]]
->'''Portrayed by:''' Creator/NinaDobrev
->''"I don't question why everyone tries so hard to save me. You shouldn't question why I try so hard to save everyone else."''
----
--> See Characters/TheVampireDiariesUniverseElenaGilbert.
[[/folder]]
[[folder: Jeremy Gilbert]]
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/s4_007.jpg]]
->'''Portrayed by:''' Creator/StevenRMcQueen
->''"Why does everyone keep dying on me?''"
\\
Elena's little brother took their parents' death poorly, falling into self-destruction and drug abuse. He also fell in love with the troubled and older GirlNextDoor, Vicki Donovan. He's far from stupid, and Elena's desperate attempts to protect him from the vampires only make him suspicious and he starts to distrust her.
----
--> See Characters/TheVampireDiariesUniverseMysticFallsGang.
[[/folder]]
[[folder: Jenna Sommers]]
!!Jenna Sommers
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/jenna_gilbert.jpg]]
->'''Portrayed by:''' Creator/SaraCanning
->''"I've become my worst nightmare. The authority figure."''
\\
In a better world, Jenna could have been an awesome cool aunt to Elena and Jeremy. With the tragic death of her sister and brother-in-law, however, she has to step up into the role of guardian for the two of them but she's not really suited for it. Still, she tries... and at least she gets a nice love interest in the form of Alaric, following the second mysterious disappearance of Logan "Scum" Fell. She is turned into a vampire and then sacrificed by Klaus.
----
* AdultsAreUseless: Despite being the adult figure in Elena and Jeremy's life, she doesn't seem to have much luck in parenting them, and obviously can help them even less when supernatural things start happening.
* AdaptationNameChange: In the books, Elena's aunt's name is Judith Maxwell (nee Gilbert). On the show, she's Jenna Sommers.
%% * CoolBigSis: Fills this role much better than the one of "responsible parent".
%% * DeadpanSnarker: Has her moments.
* KilledOffForReal: She ends up being turned into a vampire and later gets killed by Klaus while attempting to throw a wrench into Klaus' plans.
* OlderThanTheyLook: She's Elena and Jeremy's aunt and a generation older than them, but she looks like Elena's peer.
* OutOfFocus: She's quickly demoted to a PlotDevice for [[spoiler: [[MustBeInvited inviting vampires into the Gilbert house or getting compelled by them]] until she is eventually killed off in season 2.]]
* ParentalSubstitute: After her sister and brother-in-law are killed in a car crash, she becomes Elena and Jeremy's legal guardian.
[[/folder]]
[[folder: John Gilbert]]
!!John Gilbert
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/John_Gilbert_8313.jpg]]
->'''Portrayed''': by Creator/DavidAnders
->''"You know, Jeremy, I was taught to hate them, the vampires. It’s what I know. It’s what your father knew."''
----
%%* AnnoyingYoungerSibling: To Grayson.
%%* AntiVillain: [[WellIntentionedExtremist Type III]].
%%* BigBad: Of season one.
%%* BlackSheep
%%* TheChessmaster
%%* CoolUncle: To Jeremy. He's also Elena's biological father. Though Jeremy stops thinking of him like this when he kills his girlfriend.
%%* DeadpanSnarker
%%* DragonInChief: See BigBadDuumvirate.
%%* HeWhoFightsMonsters: Isobel and John are working for Katherine and they are planning to kill the tomb's vampires. Unofficially, their goal is to kill the Salvatore brothers and save Elena from suffering in a life filled with vampires.
* HeroicSacrifice: After Klaus killed Elena, John sacrificed himself to bring her back to life as a human.
%%* {{Jerkass}}: Graduated to..
%%** JerkWithAHeartOfGold
%%* KilledOffForReal: While making a HeroicSacrifice to save Elena from becoming a vampire.
%%* KnightTemplar
%%* KnightTemplarParent: To Elena.
%%* LukeIAmYourFather: He's Elena's birth father.
%%* ThePatriarch
%%* RedemptionEqualsDeath: He sacrificed himself to save Elena.
* SenselessSacrifice: Sacrificing his life to resurrect Elena without her having to turn into a vampire ends up being for nothing when she dies with vampire blood in her system in the season 3 finale, and she completes the transition in the season 4 premier, becoming a vampire.
%%* SmugSnake
%%* VampireHunter
%%* WellIntentionedExtremist: See HeWhoFightsMonsters.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Grayson & Miranda Gilbert]]
!!Grayson Gilbert & Miranda Sommers Gilbert
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/miranda_and_grayson.jpg]]
->'''Portrayed''': by Creator/JasonMacdonald and Creator/ErinBeute
Grayson and Miranda were Elena and Jeremy's mom and dad. Grayson was also John Gilbert's older brother and the town doctor of Mystic Falls.
Grayson and Miranda were both members of the Town Council and thus knew about vampires.
Grayson and Miranda were both killed in a car accident going off Wickery Bridge before the start of the series. It's later revealed that Grayson and Miranda were actually Elena's biological uncle and aunt making Jeremy her cousin.
----
* BirdsOfAFeather: Miranda was this with Kelly Donovan and Liz Forbes when she was alive.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: In season 5, Grayson is revealed to have been apart of the Augustine Society and participated in the torture and experimentation on vampires.
* HeroicSacrifice: Grayson gestures to Stefan to rescue Elena instead of himself when they are drowning underwater when the car crashed resulting in his death as Stefan only had enough time to save one of them.
* {{Posthumous Character}}s: Before the beginning of the series, Grayson and Miranda drowned after their car fell off of Wickery Bridge and into the lake.
* {{Secret Keeper}}s: As members of the council they knew of the existence of vampires and the supernatural and kept the information secret from their children and the town.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Johnathan Gilbert]]
!!Johnathan Gilbert
[[quoteright:270:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ce6ce302972d339d0bb4d931169d5e1c.png]]
->'''Portrayed''': by Creator/JoeKnezevich
Elena and Jeremy's ancestor who was part of the vampire round up in Mystic Falls in 1864.
----
%%* KnightTemplar: He was a member of one of the Founding Families that hunted vampires along with Giuseppe Salvatore and Barnette Lockwood.
%%* MadScientist: He invented the Gilbert device, the Gilbert rings, and the Gilbert compass. Though they were actually just spelled by Emily.
* PosthumousCharacter: Has been dead for centuries.
* SanitySlippage: Driven insane by the Gilbert ring.
[[/folder]]
[[folder: Isobel Flemming-Saltzman]]
!!Isobel Flemming-Saltzman
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/isolvel_tvd.jpg]]
->'''Portrayed by''': Creator/MiaKirshner
->''"I am selfish, and I'm obsessed, and I'm a horrible wife. But you love me anyway."''
Elena's birth mother, Katherine's descendant, and Alaric's ex-wife.
----
--> See Characters/TheVampireDiariesUniversePetrovaFamily.
[[/folder]]
!!Forbes Family
[[folder: Caroline Forbes]]
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/caroline_forbes.jpg]]
->'''Portrayed by:''' Creator/CandiceAccola & Creator/MckennaGrace
->''"So you're saying now I'm an insecure, neurotic control freak... on crack?''"
----
--> See Characters/TheVampireDiariesUniverseMysticFallsGang.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Liz Forbes]]
!!Sheriff Elizabeth 'Liz' Forbes
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Liz_Forbes_4621.jpg]]
->'''Portrayed by''': Creator/MargueriteMacIntyre
Liz was the sheriff of Mystic Falls and a member of the Founder's Council. She was the ex-wife of late fellow Founder's Council member Bill Forbes, who came out as being gay, and mother of Caroline. She initially struggled to accept Caroline's identity as a vampire given her prejudices, but in time she learned to love her daughter for who she is.
----
%%* ActionMom: She's a cop and an efficient vampire hunter.
* AccidentalMurder: She accidentally killed Jeremy when she shoots at Damon, and he dodges the bullet, hitting Jeremy. Bonnie is forced to have the witch ancestors bring him back, since Liz wasn't a supernatural creature, meaning that the Gilbert ring wouldn't bring him back.
%%* BadassNormal: She is a human with no supernatural powers.
* BigDamnHeroes: When, in Season 3, Caroline is kidnapped and tortured by her father to try and suppress her vampirism, Liz (and Tyler) burst in and save the day.
%%* {{Determinator}}
* HeelRealization: She has this when she accidentally kills Jeremy when she was trying to kill Damon, and after this she accepts Caroline for what she is.
* IncompatibleOrientation: Bill Forbes, her husband and father to Caroline, left her when he came out as a homosexual.
* KilledOffForReal: Succumbs to cancer in Season 6.
%%* KnightTemplar: She was relentless in killing vampires and when finding out Damon and Caroline are vampires, she tortures Damon to find out about the others, and later attempts to kill Caroline.
%%* KnightTemplarParent: To Caroline.
* MamaBear: Sheriff Forbes has a strained relationship with her daughter, but she cares for her well-being. When Caroline gets drunk at the Mystic Grill, she arrests the bartender for not checking the [=IDs=] properly (unaware that Lexi had used compulsion on him). She later fights against other supernatural creatures and will also cover up murders done by her vampire friends to protect her daughter.
* OddFriendship: Has this with Damon before finding out he's a vampire and, even after finding out, Damon shows that he legitimately considers her his friend by not killing her like he did with her deputies. She generally starts seeing him as a friend when she accepts her daughter as a vampire and that not all vampires are evil. They later become best friends. Damon is also distraught when she dies from cancer and gives a eulogy at her funeral.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: When she was able to accept that her daughter Caroline is a vampire, she becomes this and by also helping the Salvatore brothers and her other friends with the supernatural problems of the town.
* UnwittingPawn: When Damon manipulates her into killing Lexi by making her seem like the dangerous vampire.
%%* VampireHunter: Used to be one.
%%* VillainousBSOD: The first time she finds out Caroline is a vampire.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: She is at first this when she is hunting and killing vampires because as far as she knew they were all evil and she was protecting the town by killing them before they can kill anyone else. This attitude towards vampires results in her trying to kill her own daughter when finding out she was turned into one.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Bill Forbes]]
!!Bill Forbes
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/BillForbes_1590.jpg]]
->'''Portrayed by''': Creator/JackColeman
William "Bill" Forbes II was a Mystic Falls resident who returned to point out all the failings of the current Council’s attempts to keep vampires out of town, after discovering that his daughter, Caroline, is one of them.
----
* BadassNormal: He is a human with no supernatural powers, until he's murdered with the vampire blood still in his system. However he refuses to feed to complete the transition and dies.
%%* DeadpanSnarker
* DeathEqualsRedemption: He accepts that Caroline is a vampire and spends his final moments with her as he is dying from not completing the transition.
* FaceDeathWithDignity: When killed with vampire blood in his system and left with the choice to either become a vampire or die, he chose the latter without hesitation, and uses his remaining time to reconcile with his daughter and ex-wife, waiting calmly for his death.
* HaveIMentionedIAmGay: The only reason that we know that he is gay, is because people keep saying that he is, not because he ever kisses men or anything. Even then he only mentions his off-screen boyfriend once when Caroline asks about him.
* {{Hypocrite}}: He believes he can make Caroline change what she is, despite the fact that he is a homosexual. Weirdly enough, he also ''averts'' this trope regarding his conviction that vampirism and cheating death are wrong, as seen in the FaceDeathWithDignity entry.
* ImmuneToMindControl: The only known human character so far who can actually NoSell a vampire's compelling without relying on vervain.
* IncompatibleOrientation: He left his wife Liz when he came out as a homosexual.
* KarmicTransformation: Subverted and defied; he is killed with vampire blood in his system, but refuses to complete his transformation and lets himself die instead.
* KilledOffForReal: By Alaric (while he was taken over by The Darkness), who stabbed him to death and cut his throat while having vampire blood in his system.
%%* KnightTemplar: Remorseless in killing vampires and though he doesn't kill his daughter who became a vampire, he is willing to torture her to make her not be like other vampires.
%%* KnightTemplarParent: To Caroline.
* StraightGay: He is not stereotypical, and, as stated, the only reason you know he is gay is because the other characters talk about him being so, and that he left Liz when he came out.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: He comes back to town when he finds out that Caroline is a vampire and his intention is to teach her how to control her vampire nature, but his methods on teaching her are to torture her with sunlight and starving her to force her to resist the temptation to feed off a people. Also like other members of the founding families. he hunts and kills vampires to protect the town.
[[/folder]]
!!Lockwood Family
[[folder: Tyler Lockwood]]
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/tyler_lockwood.jpg]]
->'''Portrayed by:''' Creator/MichaelTrevino
->''"I have no one else to tell. I'm sorry about earlier. It's just, I'm alone with this. What's gonna happen to me? I'm gonna turn on the next full moon, and I won't be able to stop it. I'm scared.''"
\\
Matt's best friend, though the two couldn't be more different - Tyler seems to be nothing more than a JerkJock, and the son of the town's Mayor. But his parents are [[FreudianExcuse very unpleasant people]]... and Tyler has actually inherited more from his father than just womanizing ways and a hair-trigger temper... The Lockwood bloodline are actually potential werewolves, and following Katherine's plan in the second season Tyler becomes a full werewolf himself.
----
--> See Characters/TheVampireDiariesUniverseMysticFallsGang.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Richard Lockwood]]
!!Mayor Richard Lockwood
[[quoteright:170:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Mayor_lockwood_9433.jpg]]
->'''Portrayed by''': Creator/RobertPralgo.
----
%%* AbusiveParents: To Tyler.
%%* HairTriggerTemper: Clearly Tyler inherited this trait from his father. Though, both having the werewolf gene doesn't hurt either.
* {{Jerkass}}: He has a temper and he openly flirts with other women despite being married.
* KarmicDeath: Is trapped in a basement with vampires he helped trap. One of them [[NeckSnap breaks his neck]].
* KilledOffForReal: Killed when a vampire snaps his neck.
%%* KnightTemplarParent: To Tyler.
%%* MeaningfulName: ''Richard'' , both in the fact that the family is a wealthy and he's a dick.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Carol Lockwood]]
!!Carol Lockwood
[[quoteright:170:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Carol_Lockwood_4013.jpg]]
->''"You know, if you`re going to bring a girl home I wish she`d have the tact not to sneak out like a prostitute."''
->'''Portrayed by''': Creator/SusanWalters.
----
* ActionMom: A mother who is willing to fight the monsters of Mystic Falls, especially to protect her son.
%%* ActionSurvivor
%%* BadassNormal
%%* TheDeterminator
%%* GenreSavvy
%%* GoodParents
* KilledOffForReal: Carol is drowned by Klaus as revenge for Tyler's attempt to immobilize him.
%%* IceQueen
%%* IronLady
%%* KnightTemplar
%%* KnightTemplarParent
%%* MamaBear
%%* {{MuggleParents}}: To Tyler, who is a werewolf.
%%* ProperLady
%%* RichBitch: Especially in Season 1. She mellows out a little after Richard dies.
%%* SilkHidingSteel
%%* StepfordSmiler: In season one, while being locked in a hostile relationship with her husband, Richard.
%%* WellIntentionedExtremist: Especially during her time as the Mayor.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Mason Lockwood]]
!!Mason Lockwood
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Mason_Lockwood_7484.jpg]]
->'''Portrayed by''': Creator/TaylorKinney
->''"Oh, what am I? I apologize. I’m an animal."''
Tyler's uncle and a member of Jules' werewolf pack.
----
* AgentScully: Plays up his reputation as a skeptic, but he knows for a fact that there's more out there.
%%* AnnoyingYoungerSibling: To Richard.
* AwakeningTheSleepingGiant: When he was first confronted by Damon, he made it clear he had no intention of being the Salvatore's enemy and would rather mind his own business. Damon tried to kill him regardless, resulting in him actively trying to get the two brothers killed. Partially subverted when it's revealed he was working for Katherine anyway; his mission just didn't involve harming them.
* BackFromTheDead: In season 3 he appears as a ghost to Damon in order to hurt him, but also help him find a way to defeat Klaus, in order to help his nephew, who Klaus turned into a hybrid.
%%* BlackSheep
* BlatantLies: He's not very good at hiding the fact he's a werewolf.
-->'''Tyler:''' Your eyes, they glowed... what was that?\\
'''Mason:''' Reflection. Off car headlamps.
%%* TheCasanova: According to Jenna.
%%* ChickMagnet: According to Jenna.
* CoolUncle: To Tyler. He is sexy, athletic, and possesses an easygoing charm, making him more likable and cool than his brother and Tyler's father.
* KickTheDog: While you can't really blame him for trying to get the Salvatore killed after Damon [[AwakeningTheSleepingGiant tried to kill him]], he really had ''no'' good reason to threaten Caroline with revealing her vampiric nature to her mother.
%%* KilledOffForReal: By Damon.
* LoveMakesYouDumb: He was easily manipulated by his lover Katherine and had no idea she was just using him to find the moonstone.
%% * OurWerewolvesAreDifferent: The first werewolf character to be introduced in the show. He also serves as the example to establish how this universe's version of the werewolves work.
%%* SurferDude
%%* TallDarkAndHandsome
%%* TallDarkAndSnarky
* UnwittingPawn: Unbeknown to him, Katherine is just using him to search for the moonstone.
* WeHardlyKnewYe: He dies after a few episodes in season 2.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Jeffrey Lockwood-Hamilton]]
--> '''Played By:''' Creator/JustinPrice
----
* LivingProp: He exists solely to be Caroline's escort to a prom committee mostly containing Founding Families members in one episode.
* TangledFamilyTree: His exact relationship to Tyler, his parents and Mason is unclear.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Alaric eventually claims that Tyler was the last of the Lockwood's, making it unclear whether Jeffrey (and Gracie Lockwood, an unseen female relative mentioned in season 4) were killed offscreen at some point or simply weren't being counted for being more distant relatives and/or uninvolved in the supernatural.
[[/folder]]
!!Fell Family
[[folder:Logan Fell]]
!!Logan Fell
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Logan_Fell_3935.jpg]]
->'''Portrayed by''': Creator/ChrisJohnson
->''"I`ve things to do, people to kill."''
----
* BitchInSheepsClothing: He pretends to be nice to Jenna when he was only using her to get Johnathan Gilbert's watch for The Town Council from her house
* BullyingADragon: He riddled Damon with wooden bullets while taunting him, but left him without finishing him off. It comes back to bite him when Damon goes after him.
%% * {{Immortality}}: Type V and Type X.
* {{Jerkass}}: According to Jenna. He does attempt to act nicer while working with the council, but his jerkassery becomes more apparent than ever once he becomes a vampire.
%% * KilledOffForReal: Is staked through the heart Alaric.
* RevengeByProxy: Tries to turn Caroline into a vampire in order to get back at the Sheriff for covering up his death.
%% * StalkerWithACrush: To Jenna, especially after he became a vampire.
%% * UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Inverted. If he hadn't killed that girl, Stefan and Damon would have left town and Mystic Falls probably would have been a lot worse off.
* WeHardlyKnewYe: He only appears in five episodes and then dies for good.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Meredith Fell]]
!!Dr. Meredith Fell
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/meredith_fell.jpg]]
->'''Played By:''' Creator/TorreyDeVitto
----
* AdaptationNameChange: Her last name is Sulez in the novels.
* AdaptationRelationshipOverhaul In the novels, Meredith is part of Elena close circle of friends along with Bonnie and Caroline. In the series, Meredith is older than them, being part of the town's council and has never met them prior to season 3.
* AdaptationalWimp: In the books, Meredith is a skilled vampire hunter whose mental strength is so great that she can resist vampire compulsion and is the only person ''Damon'' admits to being afraid of. In the series, she has no fighting capabilities.
* AgeLift: Her book counterpart is in the same age range as Elena, Bonnie and Caroline. In the show, she is older than them and is around Alaric's age.
%% * AloofDarkHairedGirl: She is a brunette with a calm demeanor and is not easily shaken or intimidated.
%% So is she a nice gal, or aloof?
%%
%% * BornLucky: She gets fired two days in a row, but manages to keep her job because both of the terminating parties are killed.
%% There is more to this trope.
* BrainyBrunette: She's very clever and has long brown hair.
* ColorMotif: She often has maroon on.
%% * DeadpanSnarker
* DrowningMySorrows: She's known to resort to drinking after losing a patient.
* HospitalHottie: She's a very attractive doctor who works at Mystic Falls Hospital.
* HyperAwareness: She's extremely good at noticing small details or deducing things. She can usually recognize vampires just by looking at them, at easily notices Matt and Elena hiding in her closet when they break into her home.
* IgnoreTheFanservice: She's noticeably one of the few female characters in the series not to show any attraction to vampires, and actually showing distaste when they attempt to charm or seduce her, such as Damon and Kol.
* LoveInterest: For Alaric, who she shares most of her scenes. She's notably his only love interest to have survived his CartwrightCurse.
* TheMedic: Once she's on good terms with the main cast, they often seek her help with medical matters.
%% * MsFanservice: She dresses nicely and uses a decent amount of makeup.
* NerdsAreSexy: A very pretty, intellectual woman.
* NiceGirl: She's very kind and cares a lot about her patients.
* PutOnABus: In Season 6, it's revealed she married a pediatrician and moved to Alaska. Might also count as ScrewThisImOuttaHere given how crazy things had been getting in Mystic Falls.
* RaceLift: Meredith is Hispanic in the books. Here she is played by a white actress of Italian descent.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: She's one of the council members more inclined to reason with the supernatural than just attacked it.
* RedHerring: Was one of the suspects for Brian's murder, as she was his ex and was seen arguing with him the night he died.
* RememberTheNewGuy: She is a member of the Founders Council who helps run the town, but only appears in Season 3.
* TheSmartGirl: She is very keen and she can easily tell vampires from humans when she first meets them. She is also a medical doctor.
* WorkingWithTheEx Had to work with her ex Brian Walters on the hospital and as a member of the council. Due to her dislike for him, she's Damon's primary suspect when he's found dead.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Tripp Cooke]]
!!Tripp Cooke (born Thomas Vincent Fell III)
[[quoteright:270:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/7e101bc52b76ec981e05278d0210ff94.png]]
->'''Portrayed by:''' Creator/ColinFerguson
->''"Vampires. They are real. And one murdered my wife."''
Tripp Cooke, born Thomas Vincent Fell III, is the head of Mystic Falls new militia community in Season Six whose trainees include Matt Donovan. Tripp is determined to protect his town at all costs. He is also a vampire hunter.
----
* AntiHero: Of Type IV.
* BadassNormal: When he's not training his community militia, Tripp hunts down vampires - one has to be a badass in order to do so.
* BigBad: Of the first seven episodes of Season Six.
%% * DisappearedDad
* EmbarrassingNickname: He changed his name from Thomas "Tripp" Vincent Fell to Tripp Cooke with the given explanation below.
-->"My dad called me "Tripp", I was such a clumsy kid that . . . I took my mom's maiden name when he bailed - I mean could you imagine? '''Tripp Fell'''?"
* FateWorseThanDeath: Tripp is firm in his believe that being a vampire is worse than death.
* AFatherToHisMen: Tripp serves a surrogate father figure to his young militia trainees.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Tripp uses the Traveller witches' Magic Purification Spell over Mystic Falls to exterminate vampires. [[spoiler: Guess what Enzo does to deliver some comeuppance on Tripp for trying to kill him? See KarmicDeath and KarmicTransformation below.]]
* ItsPersonal: His wife Kris was killed by a vampire [[RightinFrontOfMe right in front of him]]. Futhermore the vampire compelled him to think she died of a car accident which was his fault. His crusade against vampires has shades of this.
* KarmicDeath: When Tripp crosses over the Magic Purification border, he suddenly dies via slit throat, [[spoiler: revealing he'd been transformed into a vampire]].
* KarmicTransformation: [[spoiler: Tripp was transformed into a vampire by Enzo, the very creatures he hated.]]
%% * KilledOffForReal
%% * KnightTemplar
%% * KubrickStare
%% * TheLeader
* TheLostLenore: His wife Kris was killed by a vampire.
* ShedTheFamilyName: Tripp's from the Founding Families, the Fells. He took on his mother's maiden name after his father [[ParentalAbandonment abandoned him]].
* SlashedThroat: How he's [[KilledOffscreen killed off-screen]] courtesy of Enzo for his KarmicTransformation into a vampire.
%% * VampireHunter
%% * WellIntentionedExtremist
* WhatTheHellHero: After the Mystic Falls vampires capture him, his own men hold Sheriff Forbes hostage. Matt calls him out on this.
[[/folder]]
!Other Families
!!Bennett Family
[[folder:Bonnie Bennett]]
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/bonnie_bennet.jpg]]
->'''Portrayed by:''' Creator/KatGraham
->''"You saw what I was able to do tonight. I know who I am now. If Damon spills one drop of human blood, I'll take him down.''"
----
--> See Characters/TheVampireDiariesUniverseMysticFallsGang.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Sheila Bennett]]
!!Sheila 'Grams' Bennett
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/SheilaBennett_234.jpg]]
->'''Portrayed by''': Creator/JasmineGuy
->''"I am not Bonnie. You don`t wanna mess with me."''
----
%%* CoolOldLady
%%* CoolTeacher: She taught at Whitmore before she died.
* KilledOffForReal: The effort for breaking the spell sealing the vampires in the tomb to release Stefan and Damon had greatly weakened her. She died not much time later.
* TheMentor: She's Bonnie's witchcraft mentor in season 1.
* MentorOccupationalHazard: Ends up dying shortly after taking Bonnie as her witch apprentice.
* NeverMessWithGranny: She might be old, but she's still a dangerous witch and isn't easily intimidated, even by vampires.
SassyBlackWoman: She is a very strong-willed and sassy black woman.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Abby Bennett]]
!!Abby Bennett
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/AbbyBennett_4504.jpg]]
->'''Portrayed by''': Creator/PersiaWhite
->''"Your grams is way better at this stuff than I am."''
----
%%* HotWitch: Used to be this before Damon turned her into a vampire.
%%* MissingMom: To Bonnie.
%%* NeckSnap: How Damon kills her and she transitions into a vampire.
* ParentalAbandonment: She abandoned Bonnie when Mikael came to town many years ago, and imprisoning him takes away all her magic, resulting in her never going back to her family.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Rudy Hopkins]]
!!Rudy Hopkins
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/emily_bennett.jpg]]
->'''Portrayed by:''' Creator/RickWorthy
Rudy Hopkins was the mayor of Mystic Falls, the ex-husband of Abby Bennett Wilson and the father of Bonnie Bennett.
----
* CallBack: He later goes through with Bill Forbes's plan of putting vervain in the water supply.
* TheGhost: Spends three and a half seasons being unseen until season 4.
* KilledOffForReal: By Silas who slits his throat.
* LockedOutOfTheLoop: Just like her friends, he was unaware that Bonnie was dead as Jeremy was sending texts and messages to make it look like she was still alive. He was still unaware at the moment of his death.
* OverprotectiveDad: The moment he arrives in town and becomes mayor, he attempts to keep Bonnie away from her vampire friends and stop her from using magic even to help them. Though justified by the fact that he didn't want her to get killed by vampires and he was afraid that her using magic would make her end up like her mother who lost her powers and eventually ended up getting turned into a vampire and abandoned her family before that because of her witch duties.
* {{Muggle}}: Minor human character on the show and died as a human as well without ever being turned into a vampire.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Emily Bennett]]
!!Emily Bennett
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/AbbyBennett_4504.jpg]]
->'''Portrayed by''': Creator/BiancaLawson & Creator/KatGraham
A powerful witch from the Bennett family in the 19th century who was Katherine Pierce's personal handmaiden.
----
* BurnTheWitch: She was executed by the Mystic Falls council via being burned at the stake.
* IOweYouMyLife: She became Katherine's handmaiden and servant after Katherine saved her life in an event that is [[NoodleIncident not elaborated upon]]. Ironically, she ends up dying due to Katherine betraying her.
* SheKnowsTooMuch: Katherine snitches that she's a witch to the town council, due to Katherine sees Emily as a loose end who knew too much about her to be left alive.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Qetsiyah]]
!!Qetsiyah ([=AKA=] Tessa)
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/qetsiyah.png]]
->'''Portrayed By''': Creator/JaninaGavankar
->''Have you ''not'' been listening to me? I have trust issues. I'm controlling and paranoid and a little crazy!... And that's working out just fine.''
Qetsiyah (Ancient Greek: Kετσιυαη) was the oldest known ancestor of the Bennett bloodline, and a powerful Traveler witch. She was the first witch who discovered how to grant a person immortality. But then she was betrayed and tricked by her lover Silas, who wanted the immortality for himself and his true love, thus a vengeful Qetsiyah entombed him and created The Other Side to make sure he and his true love would never reunite. For the crime of creating immortality she was executed by The Travels, but even from The Other Side, she still plots her revenge.
----
--> See Characters/TheVampireDiariesUniverseQetsiyah.
[[/folder]]
!!Donovan Family
[[folder:Matt Donovan]]
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/matt_donovan.jpg]]
->'''Portrayed by:''' Creator/ZachRoerig
->''"I get it, this is your life now. But you know what my life is, Caroline? My life is an absentee mom, and a bunch of bills to pay, and school, and a job, and it sucks sometimes, but it's my life and I think that I just want to live it without all this.''"
----
--> See Characters/TheVampireDiariesUniverseMysticFallsGang.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Vicki Donovan]]
!!Vicki Donovan
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/vicki_donovan_2.png]]
->'''Portrayed by''': Creator/KaylaEwell
->''"Don't start with the little twelve-steps thing. School councilor has been down that road, it doesn`t work for me."''
\\
Matt's older sister and Jeremy's first girlfriend, Vicki is a compulsive drug user who gets high to avoid her crappy life. She is turned by Damon on a whim.
----
* AdaptationOriginConnection: Her book counterpart Vickie Bennett wasn't related to Matt, while show Vickie is his older sister.
%% * AllMenArePerverts: As she believes.
* AnyoneCanDie: Was the first major character in the show to die, via a NeckSnap by Damon. Even after she came BackFromTheDead as a vampire, it didn't last and she got KilledOffForReal.
%% * BrokenBird
* BrutalHonesty: She has a very blunt personality and likes peaking whatever is on her mind, without consideration for other people's feelings.
%% * TheBusCameBack: As a ghost.
* ChildishOlderSibling: Although Vicki is the older sibling, Matt is the responsible one and often reprimands Vicki for her consistent recklessness and tries his best to look out for her.
* ColdTurkeysAreEverywhere: After she is turned, everyone around her suddenly looks like a walking blood bag. According to Stefan, this is usual for a new vampire.
* FoolishSiblingResponsibleSibling: The Foolish to Matt's Responsible. Vicki is reckless and self-centered and has a major problem with addiction.
* FreudianExcuse: Her attitude comes from her awful family situation, with her DisappearedDad and [[ParentalNeglect neglectful mother]].
* GoodBadGirl: Although Vickie has a good heart, she's still a major rebel who likes partying, drugs and sex.
* HorrorHunger: Vicki feels like this all the time as a newborn vampire. Stefan tells Elena Vicki's past as a drug addict makes this much worse for her than other new vampires. When she tastes Jeremy's blood she turns berserk and Stefan is forced to kill her.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: She often acts like a {{Jerkass}} to most people, including her LoveInterest Jeremy and brother Matt. Deep down she does genuinely care about them, but is too selfish and irresponsible for it to show.
* KilledOffForReal: Stefan has to stake and kill Vampire Vickie in order to protect Elena and Jeremy from her uncontrollable blood lust.
* MsFanservice: She [[LingerieScene dances around in her undies]] under Damon's compulsion.
* ReallyGetsAround: According to Tyler, Vicki is very promiscuous around school and is pissed off when she refuses to sleep with him.
* SacrificialLion: As a MidSeasonTwist, Vicki gets killed off to prove the point that {{anyone can die}}. She's Matt's sister and the first character turned into a vampire onscreen, and the center of a prominent secondary {{love triangle}} between Jeremy and Tyler.
* TheStoner: Along with Jeremy, she is a major drug addict, with the majority of her scenes having her stoned.
* WeHardlyKnewYe: Despite being a major character (Matt's sister and involved in a LoveTriangle between Jeremy and Tyler) she dies after seven episodes. PlayedWith in that she does become a recurring character who appears as a ghost in almost every season.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Kelly Donovan]]
!!Kelly Donovan
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/kelly_donovan.jpg]]
->'''Portrayed by''': Creator/MelindaClarke.
----
* AbortedArc: The writers originally planned for her to be a [[HornyDevils succubus]] back in season one, but the plot was cut for being too dark and she got written out.
* AlcoholicParent: She spends most of her time getting drunk and partying and neglecting Matt because of this.
* BackForTheFinale: In the finale. She comes back to town to meet Matt and Peter for Caroline's wedding. She actually becomes important to the plot when it's revealed she's actually dead and is an agent sent by [[BigBad Katherine]].
* GenerationXerox: Retroactively, it's easy to see from where Vicki got her HardDrinkingPartyGirl attitude from, as Kelly is basically an adult version of Vicki.
* KilledOffscreen: Shed dies at some point between being PutOnABus and the GrandFinale. The fact that neither her son or ex-husband knew about it says a lot about her life.
* LadyDrunk: She's a HardDrinkingPartyGirl who got old but never dropped the drinking habit, even for the sake of her children.
* MrsRobinson: Despite her age, she's still very attractive and ends up making out with both Damon and Tyler. Poor Matt.
* ReallyGetsAround: She's incredibly promiscuous and has had tons of lovers and boyfriends, and constantly cheats on them too.
* PutOnABus: Matt kicked her out of their home after he caught her making out with Tyler, and she left town.
* WackyParentSeriousChild: A sad variation given she's an irresponsible AlcoholicParent, forcing her son Matt to be the responsible one.
* {{Womanchild}}: Matt is more of a parent to her than she is to him, being that she's an irresponsible alcoholic.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Peter Maxwell]]
!!Peter Maxwell
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/8x04_an_eternity_of_misery_1.jpg]]
->'''Portrayed by''': Creator/JoelGretsch
Peter is Matt and Vicki Donavan's father and he abandoned his family a long time ago. He is shocked when Matt walks back into his life to reconnect — and to drags him into a world of supernatural dangers.
----
* TheAtoner: He is trying to make it up to Matt for abandoning him and the family years ago.
* DisappearedDad: He abandoned his family when he left Mystic Falls years ago.
* LockedOutOfTheLoop: When he lived in Mystics Falls he was unaware of the existence of vampires and doesn't learn of this until Damon shows up.
* TheReveal: He is revealed to be Matt's father in his debut episode. This also makes him Vicki's father.
[[/folder]]
!!Martin Family
[[folder:Jonas Martin]]
!!Jonas Martin
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/jonas_martin.jpg]]
->'''Portrayed by''': Creator/RandyJGoodwin
A doctor who moves into Mystic Falls with his family in season 2. He's actually a powerful witch in Elijah' service.
----
* AgonyBeam: His main method of combat is using a pain infliction spell that causes his opponents crippling pain. He can even cast it on multiple people at once.
* AntiVillain: He and his son are agents of an original vampire named Elijah, because he desired to kill Klaus, after he kidnapped his sister.
* CharacterDeath: By Katherine.
* PapaWolf: He's protective of his children, with the whole reason he came to Mystic Falls in the first place is to find his missing daughter and he goes ballistic once Damon ends up killing his son.
* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: His son is killed by Damon Salvatore, which led Jonas to go on a rampage and hurting many people before finally being [[spoiler: disposed of by Katherine]].
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Luka Martin]]
!!Luka Martin
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/luka_martin_tvd.png]]
->'''Portrayed by''': Creator/BrytonJames
->''"We're all bonded together by a code of loyalty to help each other."''
A new student who moves into Mystic Falls with his family in season 2.
----
* AntiVillain: He and his father are agents of an original vampire named Elijah, because he desired to kill Klaus, after he kidnapped his sister
* BettyAndVeronica: In season 2 he's the Veronica to Jeremy's Betty for Bonnie's Archie, being the confident and charming LoveInterest in comparison to the awkward Jeremy.
* CommonalityConnection: Part of the reason he's attracted to Bonnie is that fact she's from a witch family like him.
%%* DeadpanSnarker
* CharacterDeath: He was incinerated by Damon while he and his father were trying to resurrect Elijah. He ended up succumbing to his injuries, even after his father tried to cure him with a spell.
* HotWitch: Of the male kind, though he prefers to be called a warlock.
* LaserGuidedAmnesia: Once Bonnie finds out he and his dad work for Elijah, she kidnaps, interrogates him and erases the memory of what happened, so as not to tip his dad and Elijah.
%% * NiceGuy
* RomanticRunnerUp: He briefly gets involved in a LoveTriangle between him, Bonnie, and Jeremy but ends up amounting to nothing more than this.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Greta Martin]]
!!Greta Martin
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/greta_martin_tvd.png]]
->'''Portrayed by''': Creator/LisaTucker
The witch daughter of Jonas Martin and a loyal servant of Klaus, who is in charge of breaking the Hybrid curse.
----
--> See Characters/TheVampireDiariesUniverseTheOriginalsAndAssociates.
[[/folder]]
!!Young Family
[[folder:Pastor Young]]
!!Pastor Young
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/pastor_young_s4.png]]
->'''Portrayed by''': Creator/MichaelReillyBurke
->''"Fear not. For I have been chosen to lead us in the movement. Hear me, loved ones: Soon you’ll be free to pass through the gates, and we’ll all be united for eternity."''
The new leader of the Founder's Council in season four. He kills himself at the end of the premiere.
----
* CharacterDeath: When he blows himself up, alongside the entire new council.
* MyDeathIsJustTheBeginning: It's seen at the end of the episode that he knows killing himself and the Council will bring about some sort of catastrophe. And with the revelation that extremely dark magic - called 'expression' by witches - requires the sacrifice of twelve souls to work...
* RememberTheNewGuy: He's only introduced in season 4, but he's supposedly an influential member of the Mystic Falls community, enough that he's picked to be TheLeader if the new town council.
* TakingYouWithMe: He invites all the members of the Council (save for the members he kicked out) to his farm, and kills them all along with himself by blowing up his farmhouse. It's later revealed he did that on the orders of Professor Shane, as the death of the council members was the first massacre necessary to create the Expression Triangle.
* VampireHunter: He is a pastor who secretly kills and hunts vampires.
%% * VillainWithGoodPublicity: As a pastor he has the love and respect of the whole town and many show up to his funeral.
%% What makes him a villain?
* WeHardlyKnewYe: He ends up dying at the end of the episode he's introduced.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:April Young]]
!!April Young
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/april_young.png]]
->'''Portrayed By''': Creator/GracePhipps
April Young is the daughter of a dangerous vampire hunter Pastor Young, who first appeared in Season Four of The Vampire Diaries. She spent her childhood in Mystic Falls, but after her mother's death, her father sent her to boarding school. Following her father's death in Growing Pains, April returned to Mystic Falls and re-enrolled at Mystic Falls High School. Upon her return, she was quickly thrown into the middle of a fight between a member of the Brotherhood of the Five and the town's vampires, leading her to eventually learn about the supernatural world.
----
* BreakTheCutie: In her very first episode, she was stabbed by Connor and left to bleed to death during her father's funeral in an attempt to draw out the town's vampires. After that, she's been bitten, attacked, held hostage, and compelled more times than she can count and by episode 10, she is understandably upset when she discovers that all her friends have been lying to her.
%% * BuffySpeak
* ChildrenAreInnocent: She tries to befriend '''Rebekah'''. You know the sister of '''Klaus'''. Although it's justified, she doesn't know about vampires yet. Though Rebekah does enjoy being her friend.
%% * TheCutie
* FlatCharacter: She is mostly just around the other characters and is only apart of the plot because of being Pastor Young's daughter.
* GenkiGirl: April is very hyper and spirited.
%% * GirlyGirl
* GirlNextDoor: Friendly, good natured and even plain.
* MoralityPet: For Rebekah.
* NaiveEverygirl: April is highly idealistic and naive.
* NiceGirl: April is a sweet, kind and caring girl to everyone around her.
* OffToBoardingSchool: The excuse of why she wasn't in town in the previous seasons is that she was sent to a boarding school after her mother dies, and only came back after her father's death.
* PluckyGirl: April is optimistic and friendly.
%%* ThePollyanna: See PluckyGirl.
* PreachersKid: Despite being one, this really has nothing to do with her character.
* RememberTheNewGuy: She's introduced as an old friend of the rest of the Mystic Falls gang, who had been [[OffToBoardingSchool shipped off to a boarding school]] after her mother's death.
* SpannerInTheWorks: [[spoiler: Because she was wearing Jeremy's vervain necklace, she's immune to Caroline's attempt to compel her. Subsequently, she overhears the location of Rebekah's coffin and decides to investigate, before undaggering her]].
* TagalongKid: Ends up tagging along with Rebecca and mostly just hangs around the others.
* TokenHuman: In season 4, she is one of the few human characters left on the show.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Her character disappears without elaboration after season 4.
[[/folder]]
!!Tomb Vampires
[[folder: Anna Zhu]]
!!Annabelle "Anna" Zhu
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/anna_tvd.jpg]]
->'''Portrayed by''': Creator/MaleseJow
->''"Dracula was a complete wuss. Never showered. Very smelly."''
----
* ActionGirl: Anna is tough, capable and strong. As a [[StrongerWithAge centuries-old vampire, she is one of the oldest vampires]] in the series and is stronger than Damon and Stefan.
* AllThereInTheManual: The prequel novel ''Stefan Diaries'' reveals Anna got sick as a child and Pearl begged Katherine to turn her into a vampire to save her.
* AsianAndNerdy: Anna is smart, intellectual and nerdy. She is also a hardcore bookworm. She is of Chinese origin.
* BackFromTheDead: [[spoiler: She's back after she's staked, but only as a ghost that Jeremy sees in season three.]]
* BadassAdorable: Anna is small and petite but she is capable of defending and fighting for herself when she has to.
* BadassBookworm: Scholarly, nerdy intelligent and very much a bookworm, but she is not afraid to deliver a beatdown to anyone try gin to stop her from opening her moms tomb.
* BecomingTheMask: Originally she befriended Jeremy in order to obtain his ancestor's journal but later, she really falls in love with him.
%% * BettyAndVeronica: Anna could be seen as the Veronica to Bonnie's Betty for Jeremy's Archie.
%% How?
%%
%% * BewareTheNiceOnes: She may look cute but do not underestimate her.
* BrainyBrunette: Anna is very smart, brunette who is intelligent and quick. She also seems to be quite scholarly and loves research.
* BroodingBoyGentleGirl: Anna is the Gentle Girl to Jeremy's Brooding Boy, being a fairly compassionate individual despite her ultimate goals of freeing the Tomb Vampires.
%% * TheBusCameBack: As a ghost.
* CanonForeigner: Anna doesn't exist in the books.
%% * ClingyJealousGirl: She seemed this way in regards to Jeremy and his relationships with both Bonnie and Vicki.
* CuteBookworm: Anna loves books, she loves to read and loves research. She's a petite and lovely girl.
* CuteBruiser: Anna is very cute but she can kick anyone's ass. She's not to be underestimated.
%% * TheCutie:
* DarkIsNotEvil: She's dark-haired and wears dark colours but overall, she has good to neutral intentions.
* DeadpanSnarker: She has her witty and sarcastic moments, such as her page quote.
* TheDeterminator: Anna did everything to get her mother back from the tomb in which she was imprisoned in for over a century.
%% * DoggedNiceGirl: Towards Jeremy.
* FriendlyNeighborhoodVampire: Much like her mother, she has no evil intentions towards humans and doesn't even enjoy being a vampire. Her stint as an antagonist was only in an effort to free her mother from imprisonment.
%% * GenkiGirl: Especially when she gets excited.
* GhostReunionEnding: In Season Three, ghost Anna tells Jeremy she hadn't encountered her mother on The Other Side and feared Pearl might have moved on without her. However, Anna and Pearl had an emotional reunion in "Ghost World", and move on together.
%% * GirlyBruiser: She's feminine but also an ActionGirl and not to be underestimated.
%% * GirlNextDoor: She appears this way, even though she is a vampire.
%% * GoodIsNotNice: Generally nice but don't cross her or get on her bad side.
%% * GoodIsNotSoft: She may be a cute and sweet girl, but she can kick ass when she has to.
%% * GorgeousPeriodDress: Wore them during the 1864 flashbacks.
%% * HeelFaceTurn: Although she was never really evil, her love for Jeremy made her want to stay in Mystic Falls.
%% If she was never evil, than she's not an example.
%%
* HellBentForLeather: Like many other vampires, Anna sometimes wears leather jackets, which makes her look all tough and badass.
* IJustWantToBeNormal: Anna is a vampire that desires to be a normal girl and be a regular teenager.
* IJustWantToHaveFriends: Anna desires friendship, companionship and love, hence why she first befriended and then fell in love with Jeremy Gilbert.
* {{Immortality}}: Anna had the ability to live forever without physically aging. She's an immortal vampire.
* KilledOffForReal: She is killed via stake through the heart by John Gilbert, so she's dead-dead even for a show that has resurrections and is full of supernatural beings
%% * KillTheCutie
%% * LoveHurts: In regards to Jeremy.
* LoveInterest: She's romantically interested in Jeremy and he reciprocates in season one. Sadly, she is tragically killed off at the end of the first season. Jeremy makes it clear that he still loves her despite her unexpected death and it takes many seasons for Jeremy to move on from Anna, even when Jeremy moved on with Bonnie in a relationship in season two. Even after she dies, Jeremy still considers Anna as his one true love.
* LoveRedeems: Anna isn't necessarily bad by any means, but her love for Jeremy definitely brought out the nicer and softer side of her, her humanity.
* ManicPixieDreamGirl: Anna is introduced as a cheerful presence to the brooding Jeremy in season one. Subverted in that it was a deliberate plot to get close to him.
* TheMole: She pretended to join the remaining vengeful tomb vampires who were planning to wipe out the humans of Mystic Falls in order to feed information to the townspeople. John Gilbert doesn't care and simply has her staked when she's immobilized by the anti-vampire device.
* MotorMouth: Once Anna gets going, she can't stop talking, especially if the topic is something she finds important or something that she is passionate about.
%% * MysteriousWaif: In the beginning, when she first meets Jeremy.
%% * {{Nerd}}: She is highly intelligent and is quite a bit of a bookworm.
* NerdsAreSexy: Anna may be a nerd, but she is also stylish and conveniently attractive.
%% * NiceGirl: Anna is generally nice and friendly however, don't get on her bad side.
%% * NiceHat: Wore one during the 1864 flashbacks.
%% * TheOjou: During the 1864 flashbacks.
%% * PerkyGoth: Wears a lot of black clothing and has dark hair and pale skin.
%% * PimpedOutDress: During the 1864 flashbacks.
%% * PluckyGirl: Anna is very optimistic and upbeat.
%% * ThePollyanna: See PluckyGirl.
%% NO. Each trope needs to be explained on its own terms.
%%
%% * PsychoticLoveTriangle: With Bonnie and Vicki over the affections of Jeremy. Although Bonnie isn't psychotic, Vicki was certainly crossing the crazy line, especially as a ghost.
* RavenHairIvorySkin: Anna has very black hair and very pale skin. She's also considered exceptionally beautiful.
* Really700YearsOld: She's introduced as a normal human teenager, but it's quickly revealed to be a vampire who [[TheAgeless has been alive with that appearance for centuries]]. She even knew Dracula who died before Katherine was turned.
%% * SecondLove: To Jeremy. Vicki was the first.
%% * SingleWomanSeeksGoodMan: Her relationship with Jeremy.
%% * TheSmartGirl: Anna is very intelligent.
%% Smarter than other people in her group? Among her peers?
%%
%% * {{Tsundere}}: Type B, towards Jeremy.
* WaifFu: Small and petite but still has the SuperStrength of a centuries-old vampire.
%% * WideEyedIdealist: Anna is highly idealistic.
%% EXPLAIN this in detail.
%%
[[/folder]]
[[folder: Pearl]]
!!Pearl Zhu
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/pearl_tvd_modern.jpg]]
[[quoteright:350:''[[labelnote:Click here to see her 1864 appearance ]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/pearl_tvd_past.jpg[[/labelnote]]'']]
->'''Portrayed by''': Creator/KellyHu
->''"Mystic Falls is our home, Damon! They took that from us, our land, our home. It's time we rebuild!"''
----
%% * ActionMom: Pearl is very active when she needs to be.
* AffablyEvil: She's polite and ladylike to others for the most part and wishes no ill on the populace of Mystic Falls, but can be scheming and manipulative when she wants something.
* AllThereInTheManual: The prequel novel ''Stefan Diaries'' reveals Pearl lost her entire family to a disease during the Revolutionary War; she and Anna were the {{Sole Survivor}}s as Katherine sired both of them to save them from the disease.
* AloofDarkHairedGirl: Pearl is a dark-haired woman with a rather aloof and poised attitude.
* AntiVillain: She has no real animosity towards humans and only wants to make a life for herself and her daughter.
* BadassBoast: When she threatens Damon.
-->'''Pearl to Damon:''' I have 400 years on you, little boy. I'll rip you from limb to limb without even blinking, and you know it.
%% * TheBeautifulElite: Pearl comes from a noble family and seems to be wealthy.
* BestFriend: She was Katherine's closest friend in 1864, although Katherine didn't value their friendship enough to try to set her free.
%% * BitchInSheepsClothing: Pearl is very polite on the surface, but at the same time, she can very ruthless and cunning whenever she wants to be.
%% HOW IS SHE CUNNING?
%%
%% * BrainyBrunette: Pearl is very strategic and smart and she seems to be a planner by nature.
* TheBusCameBack: She briefly reappears as a ghost in Season Three, just long enough for an emotional reunion with Anna.
* CanonForeigner: Pearl doesn't exist in the books.
%% * CulturedBadass: Pearl is very cultured and sophisticated. She appears to come from nobility.
%% EXPLAIN THE BADASS PART
%%
* DarkActionGirl: A centuries-old vampire, once she's back to her full strength, she has no problem subduing Damon.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: She truly loves her daughter Anna.
* FriendlyNeighborhoodVampire: She feeds from blood bags at hospitals and has no interest in terrorizing the human populace of Mystic Falls like some of her fellow tomb vampire members.
* GhostReunionEnding: In Season Three, ghost Anna tells Jeremy she hasn't encountered Pearl on The Other Side and fears Pearl might have moved on without her. However, Anna and Pearl have an emotional reunion in "Ghost World" and move on together.
%% * GorgeousPeriodDress: Is seen wearing them in the 1864 flashbacks.
* {{Immortality}}: Like all vampires, Pearl had the ability to live forever without physically aging.
* InSeriesNickname: Her real name is Zhen Zhu, but she's mostly known as Pearl.
* IronLady: Pearl is rather stern, authoritarian, domineering, and overprotective, especially when it comes to her daughter, Anna. Given everything they've been through, it's hard to blame her.
%% * KickingAssInAllHerFinery: Pearl kicks ass in her finest and most chic clothing.
* KilledOffForReal: She's permanently killed by John Gilbert via a silent compressed air stake gun.
* KnightTemplarParent: She becomes much more protective toward Anna after being release from the Tomb, since Johnathan Gilbert's betrayal hurt her deeply and she fears Anna might face the same thing if she continues to seek a relationship with Jeremy.
%% * LadyOfAdventure: Pearl seemed to travel around the world.
%% more context is needed
%%
* TheLeader: She was accepted as the leader of the tomb vampires after their release, but struggles as most of them want {{revenge}} on the Mystic Fall townsfolk while she simply wants to regain their former glory.
* MamaBear: ''Very'' protective of Anna. Pearl won't hesitate to kill or harm anyone who so much as goes near her daughter.
* MonsterSlayerRomance: Back in 1864 she was in a romance with VampireHunter Johnathan Gilbert, which quickly dissolved once she was revealed and he attempted to kill her.
* SealedEvilInACan: She and the rest of the 1864 Mystic fall vampires spent 146 years trapped in the tomb without blood.
%% * SingleWomanSeeksGoodMan: In regards to Pearl's affections for Johnathan Gilbert back in 1864.
* {{Socialite}}: She acts as a ProperLady during 1864 to blend into high society. She even has the PimpedOutDress with the proper [[OfCorsetsSexy corsets]], OperaGloves, and NiceHat. After she's freed from the tomb, she attempts to reintroduce herself to 21st-century society in Mystic Falls and recover her previous property, adopting a more modern look by becoming a SharpDressedWoman.
* TheStoic: Pearl keeps her emotions in check most of the time.
* WeHardlyKnewYe: She dies and leaves the show after a few episodes.
* WidowWoman: She lost her husband and three of her children to disease, with only herself and Anna surviving due to being turned by Katherine.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Harper]]
!!Harper
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/tvd_harper.jpg]]
->'''Portrayed by''': Creator/SterlingSulieman
One of the vampires that was part of Pearl's group in 1864 and got locked inside the tomb with her.
----
* ApologeticAttacker: He apologizes to the random hiker that he crosses path just after his escape, and them promptly kills him for his blood and his clothes.
* KilledOffForReal: He's permanently killed by John Gilbert via a silent compressed air stake gun.
* MuggedForDisguise: After escaping the tomb, he attacks a kills a man in a forest in order to get his clothes, knowing he can't pass off as a civilian wearing clothing from 1864.
* OnlyOneName: He's only known as Harper and [[NoFullNameGiven his full name is never given]].
* UndyingLoyalty: Of the Tomb Vampires, he's by far the most loyal to Pearl, even standing up to Frederick and his followers when they defied Pearl's rule.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Frederick]]
!!Frederick
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/tvd_frederick.png]]
->'''Portrayed by''': Creator/StephenMartines
One of the vampires that was part of Pearl's group in 1864 and got locked inside the tomb with her.
----
* CallAHumanAMeatbag: His attitude towards humans is that they are only good as food and amusement.
* DumbMuscle: He prefers quick action and violence to Pearl's pragmatic way of dealing with Mystic Falls.
* KilledOffForReal: He's destroyed when staked in the heart by Stefan and Elena.
* OnlyOneName: He's only known as Frederick and [[NoFullNameGiven his full name is never given]].
* RevengeBeforeReason: He's completely driven by his desire for {{Revenge}} against the Mystic Falls townspeople and the Salvatore brothers, whom he blames for his long imprisonment inside the tomb. He's even willing to defy his mistress to get his revenge, even if it compromises their position in the town.
* TheStarscream: He leads a rebellion against Pearl's rule when she's away from town in order to get his revenge on the Salvatores, capturing and torturing Stefan against her orders.
[[/folder]]
!!Other Characters
[[folder: William Tanner]]
!!William Tanner
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/william_tanner.png]]
->'''Portrayed by''': Creator/BenjaminAyres
The gang's history teacher at Mystic Falls High School at the beginning of the series who also coaches the football team. He is killed by Damon.
----
* ZeroPercentApprovalRating: He's a history teacher and all of the students hate him.
* AssholeVictim: He doesn't really show Elena, Jenna, or Jeremy any sympathy. Damon kills him just to make a point.
* DroppedABridgeOnHim: His death is very sudden.
* {{Jerkass}}: Everybody hates him. He even keeps a file on the students who annoyed him. Alaric isn't impressed when he finds it.
* KilledOffForReal: By Damon, who kills him just to prove to Stefan how evil he is.
* SadistTeacher: Though his actions suggest that he does want his students to do well. He seems genuinely impressed by Stefan.
* SmallNameBigEgo: The man has enough hot air to refloat the Hindenburg but gets the year the Korean War ended wrong.
[[/folder]]
[[folder: Monique]]
!!"Sarah" Salvatore / Monique
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/6b51c108951b039eac209a87ae870cf2.jpg]]
->'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/GabrielleWalsh
A young woman who arrives in Mystic Falls in search of her family. She is actually a con artist.
----
* AssholeVictim: Manipulates and lies to Stefan without realizing he's onto her which leads to Enzo killing her.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: She bounced from foster home to foster home until she turned 18 and came to Mystic Falls.
* IAmWho: She arrives to Mystic Falls to find out more about her family. She's lying because she looking into ''Sarah Salvatore's'' birth family whose identity she stole. It's all part of her scheme though.
* IdentityImpersonator: She was a foster kid who met the real Sarah Salvatore at a summer camp when they were kids. Monique since she never had a real family, and picked the Salvatore family to impersonate on the logic that most of them were dead and couldn't question Sarah's identity. Unlucky for her, the Salvatore is a family of vampires.
* LoveInterest: Ends up hooking with Jeremy during her time in Mystic Falls.
* LittleMissConArtist: She introduces herself as 'Sarah Salvatore', the daughter of Stefan and Damon's distant nephew Zach. It isn't until episode 9 she's outed by Stefan and she reveals to him her real name, Monique and that she had only met the real Sarah Salvatore at a summer camp.
* MsFanservice: Jeremy is quick to note she looks hot in a bikini in episode 3 of Season 6.
* NeckSnap: How she meets her end at Enzo's hand.
* OhCrap: When she figures out Stefan has been watching over the ''real'' Sara Salvatore in secret and is now onto her.
* OnlyOneName: She's only known as Monique and [[NoFullNameGiven his full name is never given]].
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Georgie]]
!!Georgie
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/801_021_georgie.png]]
->'''Played By''': Creator/AllisonScagliotti
Georgie, an occult research intern who is working with Alaric to investigate the vault.
----
* BlindfoldedVision: She discovers that the only way to find the entrance to Sybil's cavern is to blindfold themselves and feel for it.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: She was driving home with her friend. She was drunk and had a car accident. Her friend died and she died too, but only for a few moments. When she returned she had a tattoo of a mystical symbol. Georgie tells Alaric that she went to hell during those few moments and believes that if she ever dies again that is where she is going because of her friend's death.
* DraggedOffToHell: After she dies her soul is dragged off into the darkness to the place known as hell.
* KilledOffForReal: Seline snaps her neck.
* RedHerring: The audience is lead to believe that she is Sybil's mystery sister when she breaks into Alaric's house and is threatening Seline when she threatens to call the cops. Also when she later locks Alaric in the cave and knocks out Stefan to try and release Sybil. At the end of the episode though it is revealed that she is actually being mind controlled by Seline who is actually the second Siren.
* ShipTease: In her debut episode she flirts with Alaric, but Alaric turns her down with the explanation that he is focused on his kids and is not looking to get into a relationship right now.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Dorian]]
!!Dorian
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/801_060_dorian.png]]
->'''Played By''': Creator/DemetriusBridges
Intern for Alaric and member of the Armory
----
-> See Characters/TheVampireDiariesUniverseSalvatoreSchoolForTheYoungAndGifted.
[[/folder]]
----
